Welcome to 1979, a retro-oriented studio in Nashville, recently hosted musician and philanthropist Pete Townshend of The Who for a three-day weekend before The Who Hits 50 Tour rolled into Music City. While there, he recorded directly to a vinyl master to create a unique, one-off record to be auctioned for charity.
by Clive Young With an authoritative title like The Insider's Guide to Home Recording: Record Music and Get Paid (Allworth Press; $16.95), an engineering book had better be able to walk the walk—and the latest tome by Emmy-winning recording engineer and author Brian Tarquin does just that, bringing the thoroughness of a textbook together with the casualness of a veteran engineer sharing his thoughts over a burger and fries.
"Today though, I'm using wedges for Jacoby because he has an ear infection. In-ears aren't doing it for him because of pressure; he'll start a song and with the ear infection, it'll cut in half almost immediately. Part of the reason why everyone went off wedges in the first place was that everything was so loud; with in-ears, it's safer, but with an infection, the source is close and you have to find that balance so that he doesn't get hurt."—Mike Lowe, monitor engineer, Papa Roach