July 20, 1968 - Jane sitting pensively in the BBC TV studios Saturday night on the set of Simon Dee's show "Dee Time" before she shocked millions of viewers by announcing that her five year romance with Paul McCartney was over. This was also the first public confirmation that Paul & Jane had become officially engaged seven months earlier when Paul proposed on Christmas Day & gave her an emerald & diamond engagement ring
>С Мартином он точно встречался - показано в документальном >фильме Time Machine.
Даже если встречался, то о "секретах битловского звука" они отнюдь не говорили. К тому же Мартин от узких технических деталей открещивается, считая это обязанностью звукоинженера. А вот о работе Нормана Смита (не говоря уже об Эмерике) Макаревич почему-то старательно умалчивает.
There is a race of men who are producer-engineers; they combine both functions. In theory I could do that. But I do not think it is a very good idea. I would not be able to see the wood for the trees. The essence of a producer's job is to be impartial. He must be able to see the whole picture, and make a value-judgement as quickly as possible. But when you are playing about with equalisation knobs, trim¬ming limiters and compressors, varying the amounts of echo or reverberation time, and involving yourself in a million other technical activities, you tend not to listen to the music. And I am rather single-minded about that.
A producer's function is to listen to the sound, and to the music as an overall unit together, and from that he must judge the recording. An engineer's function is to ensure that, technically, it is the very best recording obtainable. If they are worrying about each other's area of responsibility, they are not doing their own jobs properly.
All You Need Is Ears
Re: Найден ЛСД-тайник Джона Леннона Автор:ExpertДата: 20.04.10 19:00:50
VeroNicka, даже не к Битлз.ру, а журналистам таблоида The Sun, услышавших звон стеклянных бутылочек и тут же решивших "ЛСД!!!". Даже в блоге Кенвуда эта новость выглядит если не подозрительной, то уж точно странной.
Re: Найден ЛСД-тайник Джона Леннона Автор:ExpertДата: 20.04.10 18:31:01
Он сам до этого написал, чем Макаревич видимо и воспользовался:
In addition, I was able to get an even harder sound, and still retain clarity, by the use of compressors. A compressor does just what its name suggests - it squeezes the sound. The loud sounds are pushed down a bit in volume and the quiet sounds up. This was especially necessary where records had a wide dynamic range, where the peaks and troughs of sounds were widely distributed, because of the problem of the needle jumping off.
И дальше пишет, что компрессорами пользовались все кругом:
The late fifties and early sixties were a great time for compressing everything. The compressor was a bit of a new toy, and often people would overcompress. I remember describing the effect of that as being able to hear things punching holes in the sound. If you had a very heavy drum track, for example, and a voice that had to go on top of it, you could compress the whole thing so much that the drums, the loudest thing on the record, would be regulating the volume. You could only hear the voice when the drums weren’t impacting. A drum has a very high-impacting sound, one which decays rapidly, and as soon as it started to decay the voice would appear, as if by magic, rather like Pepper’s Ghost in the old-time music hall.
All You Need Is Ears
George Martin with Jeremy Hornsby
Re: Отрывок из книги Андрея Макаревича. Вначале был звук (издательство: Эксмо, 2010 г.) Автор:ExpertДата: 20.04.10 16:30:43