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hi I'm Steve Albini I am an analogue

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recording engineer and I make records on

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analog tape everyday

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I'm at Studio la Fabrique the band ratna

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magnificent have agreed to play some

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songs for us and I'm going to show you

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my normal working methods for recording

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mixing and finally producing a finished

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stereo master for an analogue recording

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session

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there's a bit of a magic sound notion

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associated with analog tape people think

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that the process of recording to tape

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changes the sound in some magic way and

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that's what makes it good it's very rare

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that I would use the tape machine

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outside of its normal parameters as a

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special effect the session that we're

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doing at la Fabrique is a 24 track 15

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inches a second using the C Cir EQ curve

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all tape machines have a range of

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performance characteristics which allows

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you to fine tune the session to suit the

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music that you're recording now I'd like

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to introduce my good friend and comrade

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Greg Norman the chief engineer at

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electrical audio the studio that I run

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in Chicago I'll be playing back a 1

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kilohertz tone and adjusting it for zero

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on the vu meter which that's pretty

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close but it's off maybe a quarter dB

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I'll just go back and forth and show you

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that's the whole kit and kaboodle state

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each of the drums is audible

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individually but you can also hear the

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sort of ringing interaction between them

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so one way to minimize that is to use

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dampening on the drums now have a much

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drier much more percussive sound so this

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is the ribbon microphone

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and this is the condenser microphone

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and if I play them together you'll hear

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that there's a hollow sound because one

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of them is out of phase with the other

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out of polarity with the other and if I

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collapse the signal into mono then

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you'll hear the cancellation effect of

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the out of phase signals I feel a pretty

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heavy obligation to the bands that I

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work for to make a recording that can

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survive potentially long enough for them

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to find an audience and to find their

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cultural significance