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Heider Truck in Long Beach 1977
CLICK THE PHOTO FOR FULL SIZE 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 [...]
In: Firsthand Stories · Tagged with: Boston, Brad Delp, Dana Roun, Heider Truck, Wolfgangsvault
Wally Explains Horn Player Miking
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 [...]
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Wally’s Tale of “The Beginnings”
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 [...]
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Reminder to authors
Please only use returns for separating paragraphs, the software here will display word wrap properly on display; if one puts extra returns at the end-of-lines, the text will look bad and hard to read on the page and I’ll have to go in an fix it. This happens because the fields one enters text into [...]
Truth?
I seem to remember Wally not around for a week, which was odd for “Mr. Hands On”. This was in ’69 or so. Turned out he heard about some tube mics for sale, in France! I think they were U-67s or 47s.
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