Lexicon Magazine / Section 2 of 7
The Rooms
A room is not a neutral container. These entries treat studios as instruments — stone and ceiling height, the distance between the kit and the control-room glass, the particular quality of silence between takes — and ask what the building contributes that no rack of outboard can supply.
3 entries · Studios treated as instruments.
Every entry in The Rooms
One machine, room or technique each
- 2.1 Townhouse Studio 2 The stone room whose ambience, through a reverse-talkback compressor, produced gated reverb more or less by accident.
- 2.2 A room as an instrument Why the same kit recorded in two rooms is two different sounds, and what a live room actually contributes.
- 2.3 Cologne Conny Plank's studio and a drier, more mechanical European use of the same technology.
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