It is amazing to watch on YouTube Frank Laico on the 2 part "Anatomy of a session". This was organized by the Pacific Northwest section of the Audio Engineering Society.
Some important highlights:
The Columbia 30th avenue studio was an Armenian church.
There, they recorded masterpieces and artists like West Side Story, Leonard Berstein, Gken Gould, Barbara Streisand, Miles Davies, Dave Brubeck trio, Tonny Bennet, Jaohny Mathis, New York - Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel.
Instructions by Mitch Miller Head of A&R not to change anything in the acoustics of the church or even clean the unvarnished wooden floor.
The church was about 100 feet by 100 feet by 100 feet.
Frank Laico believed in not very close microphone distance leaving the voice to breath and get some of his amazing room sound.
He had the rhythm section very close to the control room wall, so that the drummer and bassist can hear the reflection of themselves and to reinforce the bass.
Reverb (by echo room) was produced by a concrete and small, aproximately 10 feet by 12 feet, perhaps emptied? storage room.
After experimentation with which microphone and speaker inside and where, the output from the echo chamber was delayed by a tape machine running at 15 inch per second, to increase that amazing tail to the sound.
Frank Laico can be seen laughing and having a good time all of the time!
References: Temples of Sound - Cogan & Clark, Studio Stories - David Simmons, Keeping Time - Don Hunstein.
A list of microphones used at 30th street studio:
AKG C12 Altec 633A Beyer M260 ribbon Electro-Voice RE16 Electro-voice RE50 Neumann KM-74 Neumann U67 Neumann M-49 (Favorite to Frank Laico) for vocals and often on string sections Neumann U47 RCa 44-BX RCA 77-D Shoeps CMC5-U Sennheiser MD 421 Shure Unisphere 585 Shure Unidyne iii (SM57)
Some important highlights:
The Columbia 30th avenue studio was an Armenian church.
There, they recorded masterpieces and artists like West Side Story, Leonard Berstein, Gken Gould, Barbara Streisand, Miles Davies, Dave Brubeck trio, Tonny Bennet, Jaohny Mathis, New York - Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel.
Instructions by Mitch Miller Head of A&R not to change anything in the acoustics of the church or even clean the unvarnished wooden floor.
The church was about 100 feet by 100 feet by 100 feet.
Frank Laico believed in not very close microphone distance leaving the voice to breath and get some of his amazing room sound.
He had the rhythm section very close to the control room wall, so that the drummer and bassist can hear the reflection of themselves and to reinforce the bass.
Reverb (by echo room) was produced by a concrete and small, aproximately 10 feet by 12 feet, perhaps emptied? storage room.
After experimentation with which microphone and speaker inside and where, the output from the echo chamber was delayed by a tape machine running at 15 inch per second, to increase that amazing tail to the sound.
Frank Laico can be seen laughing and having a good time all of the time!
References: Temples of Sound - Cogan & Clark, Studio Stories - David Simmons, Keeping Time - Don Hunstein.
A list of microphones used at 30th street studio:
AKG C12 Altec 633A Beyer M260 ribbon Electro-Voice RE16 Electro-voice RE50 Neumann KM-74 Neumann U67 Neumann M-49 (Favorite to Frank Laico) for vocals and often on string sections Neumann U47 RCa 44-BX RCA 77-D Shoeps CMC5-U Sennheiser MD 421 Shure Unisphere 585 Shure Unidyne iii (SM57)
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