This is part two of this article. To see part one, go to http://wallyheider.com/wordpress/archives/rebel/39/
San Francisco
Between late 1968 and early 1969 I made several trips to San Francisco to help prepare the studios for opening day.
The original staff members included studio manager Mel Tanner, formerly an engineer at Coast Recorders in San Francisco. Ginger Mews [...]
Noted CCR mixer Russ Gary Talks about his Heider experience…
When Wally Heider was an assistant engineer at United/Western Studios on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, he was the biggest big band enthusiast on the planet and would take his portable tape recorder to gigs and record the show so the guys in the band could hear their performance. He kept the recordings for his own enjoyment. He made friends in all the big bands of the day, and when bands came to United/Western to record, they would ask for Wally as their engineer. Thus, Wally’s career took off.
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This is a photo of the Wally Heider Recording truck on location during the recording of Boston, Long Beach 77\’.
I was on the sound crew for Boston and I happened to take the photo. It is fairly low res. but it might be good for this site. The recording can be [...]
One time I was examining a horn miking setup in Studio B (at Ivar) with Wally. He told me the coolest, simplest horn miking technique I have ever heard of. “Sherman,” he said, “we always used to put the horn mike slightly above where the player’s horns were when they were seated. Especially for a [...]
A long long time ago I was speaking to Wally who was visiting me in the original Studio 3 off Selma. One thing I remember that Wally told me was that, when the studio was first built and wired, that there was a terrible hum in the (ancient) recording console. No matter how well they [...]