the studio Records, nights, and what broke.
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Velvet Harbour — August Tape
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For eleven minutes on Tuesday we were broadcasting nothing but the sound of the room. Two people wrote in — one to say it was the best set of the week, one to ask which label it was on. Here is what actually happened, what we found in the rack the next morning, and why the backup line is now checked before every night shift.
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A box from Lagos, two test presses with no label at all, and a private-press gospel LP that somebody found in a house clearance in Groningen. We played all of them once, in the order they came out of the box, and kept nine. The three that did not make it are explained too — fairness matters when people mail you their work.
Read the entry →He came in with a bag, asked where the monitor knob was, and then did not speak again until the last record. The set is in the archive; the silence is the interesting part. We talk about what happens when a guest treats the booth like a practice room rather than a stage.
Read the entry →One wall was doing all the work. After a week of pushing furniture around with a borrowed measuring mic, the low end finally behaves. Photographs of the before and after, the three things that made an audible difference, and the one expensive idea that did nothing at all.
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