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Hatfield & The North, live, 2006
Still a great album.
Noteworthy, article about the recording, and the Mix - on Mixonline -
Excerpt:
...Dorfsman and the band worked on the album in Montserrat from early November until Christmas of ’84, then came back to the island for another month after the holidays before moving briefly to Power Station for some final overdubs, followed by mixing on an SSL G Series console at AIR in London.
“I mixed that album in six days on Auratones,” he says. “The thing that saved me was knowing the tracks so well. When I record I always work with an eye toward mixing; I’m always EQ’ing. [In this case he’d used the Neve EQs on the 8078.] I rarely cut things flat, so when it came time to mix, it was mainly a matter of balancing and it was relatively easy.”
Dorfsman says the principal processors on the album are Sony DRE-2000, a number of EMT plates and the then-trendy (and expensive) AMS reverb. The project was among the first rock albums cut entirely on a 24-track Sony digital recorder, which Dorfsman says he “loved from the first minute I used it. Mark ended up buying one after working on that album.”
Cheers
Noteworthy, article about the recording, and the Mix - on Mixonline -
Classic Tracks: Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing"
By Blair Jackson. A stinging critique of the 1980s even as they happened, Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" had a lengthy genesis, as related here by engineer Neil Dorfsman.
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Excerpt:
...Dorfsman and the band worked on the album in Montserrat from early November until Christmas of ’84, then came back to the island for another month after the holidays before moving briefly to Power Station for some final overdubs, followed by mixing on an SSL G Series console at AIR in London.
“I mixed that album in six days on Auratones,” he says. “The thing that saved me was knowing the tracks so well. When I record I always work with an eye toward mixing; I’m always EQ’ing. [In this case he’d used the Neve EQs on the 8078.] I rarely cut things flat, so when it came time to mix, it was mainly a matter of balancing and it was relatively easy.”
Dorfsman says the principal processors on the album are Sony DRE-2000, a number of EMT plates and the then-trendy (and expensive) AMS reverb. The project was among the first rock albums cut entirely on a 24-track Sony digital recorder, which Dorfsman says he “loved from the first minute I used it. Mark ended up buying one after working on that album.”
Cheers
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Imagine if our phones were also espresso mini machines , I would be in heaven
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Ropeburn—Cue up that omnivore DJ!
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Linda Ronstadt - Greatest Hits - Remastered by Steve Hoffman, DCC 1993
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Aahhhhhh… the precursor to our modern day hair-metal ballads
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Has an original groove to it ,from 4:25 after it rocks •
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That is powerful.
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