The much-contested historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, which narrowly avoided being demolished earlier this year, will officially be sold to the non-profit group Americana Music Triangle (AMT) Trust on December 31. The non-profit aims to announce plans for the studio's future on March 29, 2015, which will be the facility's 50th anniversary.
By Clive Young Legendary producer/engineer Glyn Johns' autobiography Sound Man is filled with cool stories about creating classic albums with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, The Eagles, Neil Young, The Steve Miller Band and many, many more. The tales are fun, but there's also a lot that audio pros can learn from Johns' book. Here's just 10 lessons we took away from Sound Man.
"House guys always end up asking about the way I run my overheads, which is actually as underheads [clamped to the drum set]. That started years ago when Against Me was doing smaller shows in Europe and they would allow the crowd to get up on stage; my overhead stands would get knocked over a lot by rowdy crowds. I had to start clamping down everything I could...It saves some time and doesn't sound any differentstill sounds great."Marc Hudson, FOH engineer, Against Me.