Re: [ARSCLIST] Studio information WAS The first direct cut and taped lps

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are some nice pictures of the Radio Recorders annex in the booklet for the 4CD reissue of 
"Norman Granz Jam Sessions" on Verve. It was a huge room, big enough there was a band riser for the 
horns. Looking at the pix during the Count Basie session (Jam Session #2, if I recall correctly), it 
seems there was no a/c or it had konked out that day.

There is probably an article from some dusty magazine of yore about the first NBC radio studios in 
NYC, at 711 5th Avenue. The studios themselves stayed essentially the same through World 
Broadcasting, WMGM and Fine Sound, through the mid-50's. The two big studios were identical and were 
floating within the building, for excellent isolation. They had early incarnations of the curved 
panels NBC used at Rockefeller Center and elsewhere.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Shoshani" <mshoshani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Studio information WAS The first direct cut and taped lps


> Roderic G Stephens <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This a link that shows quite a bit of Radio Recorders
> > when Elvis recorded there.
> > http://www.scottymoore.net/studio_radiorecorders.html
>
> That's a really nice article. The pictures are interesting; I wonder
> how high the ceilings were in that studio...
>
> This line I found strange: "Most of the microphones used in the
> studios there by the band (at least in the '50s) were RCA 77DX's with
> Elvis sometimes using two for his vocals allowing him to move as he
> would often do when singing and still be picked up." ....I think I'd
> be too afraid of phase distortion to do that, at least mixing
> straight to mono!
>
> Michael Shoshani
> Chicago