Emeral City Studios


Emerald City Recording Days
In 1989 I pondered "There must be more to life" and so after 27 years as a recording engineer in 1995 I jumped my Emerald City ship... Well having lived through the sixties I have experienced the transitions from valve to discreet to transistor to ic and didn't relish the digital jump since it was too expensive and very ugly. Hence when Mitsubishi released a 32 track digital tape recorder for $150,000.00 in Australia and a few years later it was worth next to nothing since the 16 bit coverters were outdated by a 2 dollar watch, that decimated values.

Ten years later we have achieved some sanity along with 24 bit sound which approximates the analog world we left behind.

It is a disgrace... but digital has changed everything and the portability and services are expanding exponentially and some day the sound will be again be wonderful. Traditionally new technology arrives and it takes time to adjust. A good song does wonders.
Emerald City and Trafalgar
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Emerald City on a good day.
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Emerald City with mini keyboard controller to Mac II Cubase with automated Midi Mutes and modified API consol to include 24 direct line amps "bussed-in" for keyboards 48 + 16 + 4 echos + 4 cues = 72 available mixing to stereo master fader + video 3/4" U-matic for post.
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Emerald City with Emulator EIII keyboard controller of Atari Creator sequencer and Mac II with my mini midi keyboard hovering above API. 
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You can see Mac keyboard hovering inbetween now.. My left hand is touching the control room midi controller which allowed a producer to play in sync with music or video with 24 dedicated keyboards orchestras and drum machines and 24 track 2" Ampex all bussing down to stereo 1/4" whilst I multi-tasked.
A frame from an animated cartoon I did special sound effects for.

Michael Stavrou often spent time listening to my off-the-planet speakers - 2 x 15" Tannoys in customized lockwood boxes (facing the other way). I used the room like a folded horn - the woofers were facing the wrong way into the wall - the low frequency sound used the "room" as a baffle and ampllified the bass which created a huge bottom end - which I adhjusted with a pot to sweetned the bass - believe it or not and 2 x 12 " Tannoys facing me all with a natural acoustic rollover that didn't interfere (much) with the point source of the 12". Large room with 14' high ceiling. After all low frequency below 100Hz isn't directional. Stav often said the monitors sounded the closest to Air Studios London he's heard in Australia. He wasn't wrong.

Of course I was influenced by Pink Floy's studio. They were recording that, "Another Brick in the Wall" song. I sat up the back and recieved the full force of that bass drum. Pink Floys hasd 10,000 watts per side into quad triple by-passed with the bass boost on 11. Believe it or not but that's another story.

Every good engineer embraced midi sequencing and faking it.





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