Latest Tape recording Podcast Episodes
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...
Your Recording Style
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - August 04, 2022 14:00 - 19 minutesSend us a Text Message. If everyone recorded music the same way, everything we did would sound the same. But we don’t record the same way, and those differences are part of what makes up our recording style. In this relatively short episode, I talk about how I developed my recording style, and...
Studio Technology for Musicians Part 3 (with Corrie Lynn Green)
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - July 07, 2022 16:00 - 36 minutesSend us a Text Message. In this third and final part of my conversation with Corrie Lynn Green, we deviate somewhat from the technology of the studio and discuss the role of the producer. There are plenty of additional topics that Corrie and I could discuss, and if there is sufficient interes...
Studio Technology for Musicians Part 2 (with Corrie Lynn Green)
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - June 30, 2022 16:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. In the previous episode, I had a conversation with singer-songwriter Corrie Lynn Green explaining some aspects of studio technology and how it applies to musicians. In this second installment, we talk about headphones and how they can affect a performance; what happens...
Studio Technology for Musicians (with Corrie Lynn Green)
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - June 24, 2022 18:00 - 56 minutesSend us a Text Message. For many musicians, recording in a professional studio can be an overwhelming experience at first. There is a lot going on, it’s all very technical and mostly incomprehensible. Jargon is thrown around. Things often move fast. For a while, I have been thinking about doi...
The Future of Vacuum Tubes & What Might Have Been
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - May 16, 2022 14:00 - 22 minutesSend us a Text Message. In the late 1800s, researchers were seeking a way to amplify an analog signal. The vacuum tube was invented in the early 1900s, but scientists were also investigating the properties of semiconductor materials. A very crude version of a transistor was developed even befor...
Session Sociology
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - April 30, 2022 14:00 - 37 minutesSend us a Text Message. Music recording is a technological process, but it also involves people. The technology exists to serve musicians, and the process of recording must consider the personalities of the people involved. This episode looks at how those human interactions work, from the pers...
Karttikeya of Music Together International
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - April 15, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutesSend us a Text Message. There are many different uses for recorded music, and we explore a somewhat unusual application in this episode. My guest is Karttikeya. He only uses one name. He is the engineer and often a musician for Music Together Worldwide, which produces music for early childhood ...
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 21: Talking About the PR99, A700 & The B67
Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel - March 20, 2022 20:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPart 2 of my conversion with Rob Brinkworth. In Episode 20 we talked about Rob's collection of Revox A77 and B77 machines and we carried on talking about the other recorders in his collection too, so I thought it would be a shame not to hear it. One of the models we spoke about was the success...
Tuning
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - February 03, 2022 15:00 - 14 minutesSend us a Text Message. The instruments on a recording should all be in tune with each other, right? In this short episode, I discuss how instruments are tuned, and why even with today’s remarkable tuning devices, there’s more to tuning an instrument than looking at a colorful display on the he...
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 20: The Revox A77 (and a bit about the B77 too)
Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel - January 12, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s rare you can use the term game-changer in the world of reel-to-reel, In the genesis of the format developments came organically, with perhaps only the discovery of AC bias, to radically improve the recorded audio quality, being worthy of that title. But in terms of actual machines that t...
A Recording, Deconstructed
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - December 30, 2021 18:00 - 40 minutesSend us a Text Message. I take a behind-the-scenes look at a recent recording project I am working on as producer and engineer, explaining the technical details of the session, along with the pre-production planning. This episode has samples from the individual tracks, plus earlier versions and...
Recording Critiques - The first Five
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - November 26, 2021 17:00 - 47 minutesSend us a Text Message. In the previous episode, I asked listeners to send me their recordings for my critique. In this episode, I play five of the songs submitted and offer my comments. I try to limit my remarks to things that the engineer has some control over, like the mic’ing, amount of ro...
Recording Critiques
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - November 04, 2021 13:00 - 11 minutesSend us a Text Message. Recently several people have suggested that I do a series of episodes featuring listener-submitted recordings for my critique. At first, I was not particularly enthusiastic about this idea. Sure, I can make lots of comments on someone’s recording technique. But where do...
Stereo Mic'ing Techniques
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - October 07, 2021 22:00 - 24 minutesSend us a Text Message. Stereo has added new dimensions to our recordings, an effect that is difficult or impossible to achieve in monaural recordings. New immersive formats, such as Dolby Atmos, add even more dimensionality to music. You can achieve a kind of stereo by panning mono recordings...
Chuck Anderson, Part 2
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - September 23, 2021 14:00 - 50 minutesSend us a Text Message. My conversation with jazz guitarist, composer, writer, and teacher, Chuck Anderson continues in this episode. We talk about recording his early albums, his trio, solo guitar compositions, and practical advice to aspiring musicians. We discuss the value of silence, why w...
Chuck Anderson guitarist/teacher/recording artist
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - September 08, 2021 17:00 - 48 minutesSend us a Text Message. Chuck Anderson is an amazing musician. Not only is his technique on guitar remarkable, he is also a solid businessman who has made his living from music since he was a teenager. Over his long career, Chuck has worked with the top singers in the music business. But his s...
Studio Drummer John O'Reilly
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - August 26, 2021 15:00 - 58 minutesJohn O’Reilly is a studio drummer who spends most of his time recording drum tracks for clients in his studio. He talks about his experiences leading up to his business, “Boom Crash Drum Tracks.” Our conversation covers much more than that. We talk about his philosophy of drumming and music, th...
Studio Drummer John O'Reilly Jr.
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - August 26, 2021 15:00 - 58 minutesSend us a Text Message. John O’Reilly Jr. is a studio drummer who spends most of his time recording drum tracks for clients in his studio. He talks about his experiences leading up to his business, “Boom Crash Drum Tracks.” Our conversation covers much more than that. We talk about his philoso...
DSD Recording with George & Geoff Hazelrigg
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - August 12, 2021 14:00 - 51 minutesSend us a Text Message. Direct Stream Digital (DSD) is a different way to record music in a digital format. The concept goes back to the 1930s, and it has been used to record music for at least 20 years. But DSD has not been widely accepted in music recording because it has some serious limitat...
Audio Quality with George & Geoff Hazelrigg
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - July 29, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutesSend us a Text Message. Geoff and George Hazelrigg are not only my business partners, but also superb musicians with decades of studio experience. We seem to always agree on what makes a compelling recording. In this informal conversation, we talk about how artifacts of any kind will detract f...
Dolby Atmos explained by Dale Becker
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - July 15, 2021 14:00 - 58 minutesSend us a Text Message. Major record labels and other music providers are committed to adopting Dolby Atmos and other immersive audio technologies. There is a huge amount of work available to re-mix a label’s entire catalog in the new formats. Dale Becker, of Becker Mastering in Los Angeles, h...
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 19: Why MCI? Part 2
Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel - July 03, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode is part 2 of our two-part look at (Sony) MCI tape machines - I am told, by those with minds immeasurably superior to mine, that there is no difference between those machines badged with the Sony or MCI logo. We talk to Graham Nystrom of Rope Room Studio based in Astoria, Oregon (...
Robin Eaton: Songwriter, Musician, Studio Owner
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - July 01, 2021 14:00 - 1 hourSend us a Text Message. Robin Eaton is a songwriter, musician, vocalist, and studio owner based in Nashville. I’ve known Robin for over 40 years, since he lived in nearby Wilmington, Delaware. He came into my studio around 1980 to record demos for several songs and I was blown away by the quali...
Tracking, Mixing, and Mastering
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - June 18, 2021 18:00 - 19 minutesSend us a Text Message. In the days before tape recording, records had to be made “live,” with the performance going directly to a master lacquer disc. In the 1950s, when recording to tape became possible, the mastering step could be detached from recording, but the performance was still captur...
Harpischord Recording
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - June 04, 2021 16:00 - 15 minutesSend us a Text Message. In this short episode, I describe the process I went through on a recent recording project. We were recording a harpsichord, an instrument I had some experience recording, but never before as a solo instrument in the studio. Here is a link to a video made during the rec...
Location Recording
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - May 23, 2021 21:00 - 20 minutesSend us a Text Message. Most of us record in studios of various types. But sometimes it is necessary, or advantageous, to record on location. I’ve had a studio most of my career, but in the early days, I recorded entirely on location. More recently, before I built my present studio, I did quit...
Vacuum Tube Fundamentals
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - May 10, 2021 14:00 - 58 minutesSend us a Text Message. Ever wonder how do vacuum tubes actually work? Tubes are one electronic device that you can actually see how they operate. I explain vacuum tube fundamentals in this conversation with Matthew Glosson. Matthew has been working for D.W. Fearn for the past year, mostly wit...
Press Play - The Podcast from Reel Resilience - Ep 18: Why MCI? Part 1
Press Play > Dedicated to All Things Reel-to-Reel - April 28, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode, and the next one, of the Press Play > podcast is all about MCI tape recorders. I put the word out on the Facebook groups that I wanted to talk MCI tape machines and studio owners Thomas Yearsley and Graham Nystrom replied they would be happy to hook up. Both Graham and Thomas are...
Theater of the Mind
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn - April 26, 2021 15:00 - 25 minutesSend us a Text Message. There is a story from the early days of television. A reporter asked a young boy if he preferred to watch a baseball game on TV, or listen to it on the radio. His answer was immediate. “On the radio. The pictures are so much better!” We work with sound, and except for ...
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