[78-L] Acoustic-era monitoring

[Julian Vein]

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> No monitors.  All trial and error.  Record something, take notes of what the
> set-up was, make a test pressing, listen to it, take notes as to what needed
> to be done differently....lather, rinse, repeat.  Mixing was by balancing
> via manipulating distances from the horn(s).  Singers did their own volume
> limiting and gain reduction (as it were) on the fly, leaning away from the
> horn for the loud bits, leaning in for the softer ones.  Some of them were
> assisted in this by the engineer who had to move them gently back and forth
> while they were singing.
> _______________________________________________
I heard Brian Rust say that, on occasion, singers would be wheeled on a 
trolley towards and away from the horn as appropriate.

      Julian Vein


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