The official recording days are August 20-22. We are used to adding reverb to individual tracks, adding equalization and otherwise sweetening up the sound, but the nature of this kind of recording does not permit any of that.Īfter returning from this short California run we will start experimenting with Fritz next week. The question that remains for me is how “pleasant” the recording will be. It will sound as if you are sitting in the middle of my studio, surrounded by the musicians. Trust me, you will all be blown away by the intimacy created by a binaural recording. If somebody slowly moves around you while talking to you, you don’t just hear the sound come from 5.1 or 7.1 locations! No, you observe a fluid space – influenced by the shape of the room and the surfaces in the room – in which your mind can localize the voice (you hear with your ears, but you listen with your mind!). That approximates space, but only very crudely. See, when a movie studio produces surround sound, whether it is Dolby or DTS, 5.1 (Front-Left, Center, Front-Right, Rear-Left, Rear-Right and Sub-Woofer) or 7.1 (same PLUS Mid-Left and Mid-Right) – it is always a multi-channel recording that has been placed inside the speaker-matrix. That’s the secret to Binaural or Holophonic recording. The shape of the dummy’s ear affects how the soundwaves arrive at the microphone just the same as if they were arriving at your ear! And the nose is important as well as it “splits” the soundwaves in a specific way we are used to. The microphones are inside the ears, placed as anatomically correct as possible. So … do microphones go in Fritz’s ears, or … hmmm … how exactly does Fritz work? Can we simply blend the two stereo pairs? I assume so, but we will have to see. What happens when we record the band playing a song via Fritz and then Dave does a percussion overdub with Fritz. One thing we will have to experiment with is how layering stereo tracks recorded with Fritz sound. Another option is to use a real electric guitar amp (that’s so last century – I don’t eve own one anymore) and place it in the room with Fritz. It might be very cool to have the band play “holophonic” and then add simple stereo elements (electric guitar and synth). Then we will also experiment with overdubbing elements like electric guitar or synthesizer. At first we will make a straightforward “Live” recording. Introduced the band to Fritz and we discussed different recording options. Anyway, more beautiful music coming your way sometime next year! Being a drummer, his phrasing is quite different from the way I might naturally phrase a melody, which I find very interesting. He recorded himself singing guide-melodies for me, which I learned to play on the guitar. He has a wonderful way of smoothly and seamlessly moving from one rhythm to another and I like his pieces a lot. We are leaving Santa Fe via bus this evening and I am (almost) packed… I like the German word Kunstkopf for its double-meaning: Kunst means artificial in this context, but the general meaning of the word is Art.Ġ | Music, Recording, Studio, Technology, Touring I am leaning towards The Fritz Files – a Kunstkopf Recording. Another person suggested My Binaural Experience. Alan suggested a title for the album: “ The Fritz Files“. The photos here show the first setup, with Fritz facing the guitars. Took a vote and decided to recorded 24/96k. In the studio – recording with Fritz, the binaural dummy head… took a break to order pizzas for lunch. 0 | Binaural, Jon Gagan, Recording, Studio
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