by Clive Young From The Beatles' Abbey Road to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to his own hit albums, legendary producer/engineer/musician Alan Parsons has made his mark on music history. In recent times, however, when he hasn't been mixing at one desk, he's been typing at another, co-writing The Art and Science of Sound Recording, an in-depth book on the entire music production process. Parsons and his co-author, Julian Colbeck, sat down with PSN at the 137th AES Convention for a spirited chat on mentoring, EQ'ing overheads and why George Harrison took too long to record guitar solos.
"We only do about 15 shows a year in the States; the majority of it is in Central and South America, and the Caribbean. The only thing we don't travel with is the lighting rig and the PA, but we try to keep it consistent. Most times, we'll pick up a Meyer Sound LEO system down there, or L-Acoustics or a d&band we keep it to those. We have our own system engineer, Jimmy Ibañez, and he makes sure the rigs sound good no matter where we go." Jose Rivera, FOH engineer for Marc Anthony.