Latest Tape recording Podcast Episodes
Studio Accessores
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - April 29, 2024 12:00 - 41 minutesSend us a Text Message. There are many things that are important to create the proper studio environment for creative success. Most of these things are pretty mundane, but they do make a difference. Examples I cover in this episode include microphone stands and accessories, music stands and in...
Shawn Dealey on Dolby Atmos
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - March 14, 2024 14:00 - 57 minutesSend us a Text Message. Ever since its announcement, I have been interested in learning more about Dolby Atmos. I was skeptical at first, primarily because of my experience with “Quad” back in the 1970s. That 4-channel concept never gain any popularity with either the listening public nor in th...
Compression
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - March 01, 2024 15:00 - 41 minutesSend us a Text Message. Compression and limiting are tools we use to modify the dynamic range of the music we record. In this episode, I present a brief history of where this technique came from, how it evolved over the years since the 1930s. I discuss the various ways that compression circuits...
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 26: In Conversation With Dan Labrie of Myriad Magnetic - Part 2
Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel - February 16, 2024 20:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn part 2 of this two-part podcast we talk to Dan Labrie owner of Myriad Magnetic. Dan has been involved in professional analogue recording technology since 2010. He began his career replacing switches and capacitors on an Amek console at a recording studio in Detroit. As a result of working ...
Audiophiles Guide to Music Recording - Part 2
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - February 01, 2024 17:00 - 41 minutesSend us a Text Message. This is part 2 of the Audiophiles Guide to Music Recording. You can listen to part 1 at https://www.buzzsprout.com/942952/14335456 Or you can access part 1 wherever you listen to podcasts. My Take on Music Recording is primarily aimed at people in the professional recor...
Audiophiles Guide to Music Recording - Part 1
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - January 18, 2024 20:00 - 45 minutesSend us a Text Message. My Take on Music Recording is primarily aimed at people in the professional recording world, but there are a significant number of listeners who are music lovers and audiophiles. This episode provides an overview of the recording process for them. However, I think even p...
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 25: Iain Is Interviewed on Local Radio
Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel - January 07, 2024 19:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI have been meaning to do this for a long time, a bit more about me and my experience, so you get an idea of the person behind all of this. I did an outline of my background in Episode 1 but there is nothing like being interviewed and answering those, sometimes tricky questions, that get you se...
Iain Is Interviewed on Local Radio
Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel - January 07, 2024 19:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI have been meaning to do this for a long time, a bit more about me and my experience, so you get an idea of the person behind all of this. I did an outline of my background in Episode 1 but there is nothing like being interviewed and answering those, sometimes tricky questions, that get you se...
Reverb
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - December 19, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutesSend us a Text Message. Music is meant to be heard in an appropriate acoustical environment. But many times, we have to record in a space that does not have the right sound to it. Artificial reverb is often the solution. In this episode, I talk about good room sound in a studio, and the earlie...
Plug-ins vs Hardware
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - November 22, 2023 20:00 - 17 minutesSend us a Text Message. In this episode, I talk about software plug-ins vs hardware. It is a question that I get frequently from listeners. It is relatively short. Can a plug-in perfectly emulate a hardware device? What are the tradeoffs a plug-in designer needs to consider? What about a plug-...
Improving Acoustic Spaces
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - October 31, 2023 17:00 - 40 minutesSend us a Text Message. Every recording is made is some sort of space. It might be a room, and studio, a church, a concert hall, or even outside. The space where the music is performed, and where the microphones pick up the music always influences the sound of the recording. You might think t...
Record Better
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - October 08, 2023 15:00 - 19 minutesSend us a Text Message. How do we make our recordings better? I have thought about this for over 50 years and in this episode, I have tried to distill what I learned into a dozen general rules. The best way to make great recordings is to start with great performers. But even if you aren’t reco...
Recording Unfamiliar Instruments
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - September 16, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutesSend us a Text Message. What if you were suddenly confronted with recording an instrument you had never had in the studio before? Or one you never heard before? Or one you never knew existed? How do you figure out how to capture its sound? Where do you place a microphone? What microphone will ...
In Case You Missed It...
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - August 16, 2023 17:00 - 19 minutesSend us a Text Message. After three and a half years of producing the “My Take on Music Recording” podcast, I thought it would be useful to review the 80+ episodes and point out some of the interesting topics you might have overlooked. You might have missed some of the earlier episodes, or ski...
Justin Gray on Immersive Audio Part 2
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - July 19, 2023 20:00 - 50 minutesSend us a Text Message. My conversation with musician, producer, mixer, and mastering engineer Justin Gray continues, in this second of two parts. In this episode, Justin discusses how to provide optimum tracks for an immersive mix. He also talks about the minimum immersive monitoring system ne...
Justin Gray on Immersive Audio
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - June 19, 2023 17:00 - 50 minutesSend us a Text Message. Justin Gray is a musician, producer, mixer, and mastering engineer based in Toronto. His credits include many major artists. He was fascinated by immersive formats long before they became mainstream. In this first part of a two-part series, we talk about the various im...
Music/Life Balance with Corrie Lynn Green
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - May 09, 2023 14:00 - 47 minutesSend us a Text Message. Most people have time conflicts between what they do for a living and the rest of their lives. That includes time for family and friends, hobbies, obligations, and exploring new directions. Musicians also must confront these same issues. It is often more difficult for a...
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 24: In Conversation With Dan Labrie of Myriad Magnetic - Part 1
Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel - April 29, 2023 17:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn part 1 of this two-part podcast we talk to Dan Labrie owner of Myriad Magnetic. Dan has been involved in professional analogue recording technology since 2010. He began his career replacing switches and capacitors on an Amek console at a recording studio in Detroit. As a result of working ...
Troubleshooting
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - April 24, 2023 15:00 - 33 minutesSend us a Text Message. Studios are complex technological environments and it is common for problems to arise. But a problem in the equipment might be a minor inconvenience if you have the skills to quicky determine where the trouble lies and understand how to fix it. Most problems in a studio ...
Dave Hill
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - March 24, 2023 19:00 - 23 minutesSend us a Text Message. Most of you in the professional audio world have learned that Dave Hill, founder of Crane Song, died in February. Dave and I were friends for over 30 years. In this episode I tell some stories about our interactions over the decades. Not only was Dave an amazing engineer...
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 23: Who's Going To Fix These Machines? - Part 2
Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel - March 07, 2023 21:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe resurgence of reel-to-reel, whilst great, has brought with it a few myths and misnomers and, shall we say, less than best practice in using them. In part 2 of this 3 part mini-series on supporting reel-to-reel, Iain Betson of Reel Resilience discusses with his guests, Rob Brinkworth and Gar...
Choosing the Right Microphone
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - February 10, 2023 20:00 - 35 minutesSend us a Text Message. How do you decide what microphone to use for any instrument or voice you will be recording? All microphones sound different from one another, which is a wonderful tool at our disposal. Making the right choice will improve your recording, eliminate many problems at the mi...
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 22: Who's Going To Fix These Machines? - Part 1
Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel - January 31, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the 1960s to 1980s, when tape recorders were in regular use, there were many people to fix them. Half a century down the line, the number who now do this has reduced for many reasons. So who's going to keep these recorders running for the next generation to enjoy? In part 1, of this two-part ...
Headphones for Mixing
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - December 28, 2022 18:00 - 21 minutesSend us a Text Message. The typical music consumer these days is listening on earbuds or headphones. Or maybe on the tiny speakers in their smartphone. Few are listening on speakers, at least none of any reasonable quality. It makes sense for us to take this into consideration when we mix a so...
Terri Bright, SInger-songwriter and Behavioral Expert
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - December 09, 2022 18:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Recording is a technological endeavor, but it also invariably involves people. The psychology of recording sessions has always fascinated me, so when a listener suggested that I have Terri Bright on an episode, I was intrigued by Terri’s dual career as a singer-songwrite...
Why Different Gear Sounds Different
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - October 25, 2022 13:00 - 37 minutesSend us a Text Message. What makes one piece of studio electronic gear sound different from another, similar piece? When it comes to the physical gear we need to record, there are only a few basic categories. You probably use microphones, mic preamps, equalizers, compressors, converters, rever...
Ribbon Microphones
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - October 06, 2022 17:00 - 39 minutesSend us a Text Message. If you have listened to this podcast for any length of time, you probably know that I am a big fan of ribbon microphones. In this episode, I talk about my introduction to ribbon mics while I was in high school, and how over the years I tried to make them work for me. Ev...
Doug Fearn Interviewed by Corrie Lynn Green
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - September 22, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutesSend us a Text Message. For this 70th podcast episode, things are reversed and I am interviewed by singer-songwriter Corrie Lynn Green. Corrie was curious about how I got into recording, and later into studio equipment manufacturing. We also talk about my views on what makes a successful record...
The Evolution of Contemporay Music with Chuck Anderson
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - September 01, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutesSend us a Text Message. You may remember Chuck Anderson from a 2-part episode we did in 2021, where Chuck and I had a wide-ranging discussion on many musical topics. You can listen to those discussions here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/942952/9161095 https://www.buzzsprout.com/942952/9247297 C...
Listening
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - August 19, 2022 13:00 - 36 minutesSend us a Text Message. For anyone working in music recording, hearing is vital. But so also is our ability to listen. In this episode, I talk about the two ways of listening, and why both are important. Can you improve, even enhance, your listening ability? I offer some ideas on how you might...
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