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Issue #118
by L. Swift and Jeff McQ
Director Catherine Hardwicke at Tribeca 2016
Jonathan Harris with screenwriter Susan McMartin at Tribeca 2016
Alfonso Cuarón and Emmanuel Lubezki at Tribeca 2016
Francis Ford Coppola on the red carpet, Tribeca 2016
Panel discussion at “Taxi Driver”, Tribeca 2016
Nigel Dean center with collaborating artist on the left, vocalist on the right.
Desiree Holiday, Recording Connection apprentice in Nashville, TN, discusses the virtues and peculiarities of the mic. “In my experience I have found micing an instrument is much like finding a good friend-we have to get along well, match in characteristics, agree on the intent of the relationship, and enhance each other’s positive qualities in order to create a beneficial experience….While practicing micing drums with my mentor, I achieved the desired goal and wanted to take a picture of the mics used and how I placed them. [Mentor] Mr. Web said, ‘Sure! Just remember you will never mic a drum set like that again, it will never be the same!’ A different drummer + a different drum set + a different environment and intent = a whole new party. Microphone choice and application really rides the subjective/objective line. There really is no right or wrong, no opinion better than the other, just whatever keeps the party going!”
Recording Connection graduate Chase Zabatta has found a unique way to put his audio skills to good use. After apprenticing with Sax DMA of Terminus Studios in New York City (back when the studio was called “Tainted Blue”), Chase saw a need in his area for high quality practice spaces for bands and artists, and jumped in to meet it. Today, he owns and operates Rapture Sound Studio, a 5-room rehearsal space on Long Island’s north shore, stocked with high-quality gear and audio equipment.
Billing Rapture Sound as a studio “created by musicians, for musicians,” Chase found much of his motivation for building this space out of his own passion for music. “I was a musician, a touring musician, and a singer, and a guitar player,” he says, “and I was doing all that, and wasting money, and I was like, ‘What am I doing?’…[So] I took my musician skills and turned it into a career.”
As a musician himself, Chase felt the common plight of the area musicians who needed a good place to rehearse in, especially when it came to the gear. “When I was younger, I used to go to rehearsal studios,” he says, “and they’re all pretty crappy around here. Around here, they’re really bad…We’re like number one on Long Island, because nowhere else…When you go to these guys’ places, you’re not going to see the kind of gear I have.”
It turned out to be the right idea at the right place at the right time. “There’s really not many of these anymore,” says Chase. “I got lucky because all of the monthly rehearsal [spaces] have been condemned. So now they’re looking for rehearsal studios.”
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