Hey Jed. Great machine there! I am learning the analog "way" so bear with me, but is this Studer just a mixer? It would then connect to a seperate tape machine?
If it does connect to a seperate machine, which do you use, and how do you connect it? By the direct outs?
And seeing that you/the noise band is analog only, maybe you can help answer what type of desk/r to r machine hendrix uses? Did he use a Studer board?
Hendrix photos:
http://s455.photobucket.com/albums/qq279/mitchmitchell67/Hendrix%20Recording%20Gear/
Thanks,
Conrad
Yep Conrad, just a mixer. And just a 12 in 2 out one at that. So you can plug in up to 12 microphones or other things like keyboards or direct injected guitars, basses and so on. Then it connects to a stereo recording device. In our case a Revox PR99 like this one...
It is connected to the Revox using two XLR cables like microphone cables from the main output connectors on the back of the Studer desk. The Studer can output a maximum of +24db (0.775V) 200ohm so the recording device has to be able to cope with that. The Revox can.
So we set up the band, set up the microphones and start playing. The engineer twiddles the balance on the individual microphones until he's happy with the levels and the mix. Then we stop, he hits the record button on the Revox and we play the whole, ah, tune, end to end without stopping.
Or should I say 'structure'. It's a noise band, they're not really tunes.
What is played is what you get. You can't add anything else once it's recorded, and, asides fiddling with it a bit at mastering time, there's no way to effectively adjust the levels of the individual instruments and voices that were played once it's recorded.
Which is not how it's usually done these days. Usually the individual instruments and voices are recorded to their own tracks then they are mixed down later. The Studer 089 console is not configured to record like that. It has no direct outs on it's 12 individual channels. Although if we wanted to, accessory ones could be fitted as I explained previously. Then it could record up to 12 seperate tracks for later mix down to a two track recorder.
As to Hendrix, it depends on what tunes and what time period you are talking about. The early ones were recorded in the UK and the later ones at Electric Ladyland in NYC. There'll be plenty of info on the web and in print as to what was there at the time I suspect. Just start googling the various albums or tunes you're interested in and see what comes up.
The consoles in the pictures you reference don't look like Studers to me.
Cheers
Jed
