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$4.00 June 1985 Volume 16 - Number 3 PRODUCING AUDIO FOR TAPE RECORDS FILM LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO 'cV BROADCAST AUDIO- FOR -VIDEO IMAX SIX-TRACK - Page 70 _OITEMENT - page 46 THE. CROSSOVER HIT - page 30 Sony is the Digital Future: DASH all the way. Digital From 2 to 48-channel, the industry is going our way. Tomorrow's recording studios will all be digital. In fact, the digital revolution is well under way. So what's the best way to get started now? With Dash, you know you'll be ready for whatever the digital f Jture may bring. Dash has the technical advances and the compatibility you're looking for. That's why so mar.y more of the major manufacturer:; are backing it. Dash offers up to 48 channels to meet the most demanding ' ecording requirements, and because so many studios are turning to Dash, you'll have the confidence that your masters conform to the industry standard format. And that's a comforting fact. 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Engla id Phone (061) 834 -6747 Telex 668127 PRODUCING AUDIO FOR TAPE RECORDS FILM LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO & BROADCAST - June 1985 Contents ENGINEER PRODUCER Volume 16 - Number 3 - the magazine to exclusively serve the RECORDING STUDIO and CONCERT SOUND Production Viewpoint industries ... those whose work involves the - - engineering and production of commercially Producing Crossover Hits ... Dennis Lambert ... writing, arranging and marketable product for: working in the studio with the Commodores on the hugely successful album, - Records and Tape - Film Nightshift, and on Dennis Edwards' Don't Look Any Further ... defining - Live Performance the essence of studio creativity and the role of the songwriter /producer. - Video and Broadcast Interviewed by Mel Lambert and Ralph Jones page 3() the magazine produced to relate recording ART to recording SCIENCE .. to recording - Live- Performance Sound - EQUIPMENT. SOUND ON STAGE USING THE POWER PHYSICS FLOWN LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM --- On The Road With Huey Lewis and News by David Scheirman page 46 Publisher MARTIN GALLAY - The Creative Edge - Editor MEL LAMBERT RECORDING AND PRODUCTION APPLICATIONS - Consulting Editors - OF NOISE GATES AND EXPANDERS ROMAN OLEARCZUK ... Technical Operations The Use of Gates and Keyed Expanders to Reduce DOUGLAS HOWLAND ... Broadcast Sound Spillage and to Create Special Effects LARRY BLAKE ... Film by Denis Degher page 62 DAVID SCHEIRMAN Live Performance Art Director HOLLY FERGUSON - Audio -Video Fusion - Production Editor ROBERT TUFFLY Advertising Manager LAUREL CASH SOUND FOR THE VISUAL AGE Business Manager V.L. GAFFNEY Diversifying from Traditional Recording Sessions Circulation /Subscription to the Specialist Audio Requirements of Manager BONI WISH Video and Film Post Production Special Projects RHONDA KOHLER (Customized Software for the IBM PC - page 74) by Doug McKenzie and Bob Predovich page 70 - Film Sound - "RECORDING Engineer /Producer" MIXING TECHNIQUES FOR DOLBY STEREO (ISSN 0034 -1673) FILM AND VIDEO RELEASES is published six times a year by GALLAY (Rock Music and the Dolby Stereo Matrix - page 102) COMMUNICATIONS, INC., 1850 Whitley Avenue, Hollywood, California 90028, and Is by Larry Blake page 94 sent to qualified recipients in the United States. One year (six issues) subscriptions may be pur- Broadcast Production chased at the following rates: - - United States (Surface Mail) $24.00 STEREO TELEVISION AUDIO United States (First Class) $30.00 Operational Factors Affecting the Major Networks, Canada $24.00 Public Broadcasting and Independent Production Facilities Foreign $45.00 ( Foreign subscriptions payable in U.S. funds (The Zenith /dbx Transmission System - page 114) only by bank check or money order.) by Ralph Jones page 108 o -THE DIRECTORY - 0 Recording, Production and Live -Performance Consoles Part Two page 121 RECORDING Engineer /Producer Is not responsible for any claim by any person based on the publication by RECORDING Engineer/ - In -Use Operational Assessments - Producer of material submitted for publication. -1 Material appearing In RECORDING Engineer/ YAMAHA REV DIGITAL REVERBERATION SYSTEM Producer may not be reproduced without the Reviewed by Bobby Nathan page 134 written consent of the publisher. MARSHALL ELECTRONIC AR -300 TAPE ELIMINATOR Reviewed by Bob Hodas page 140 - Departments - 4 M Letters to the Editor - page 6 News Developments - page 14 Exposing Audio Mythology, by John H. Roberts - page 17 Second Class Postage paid at Travels with the Editor: Digital Developments at the Los Angeles, California West Coast AES Convention, Anaheim, by Mel Lambert - page 23 and Additional Post Offices. Studio Update - page 84 Final Stage - page 89 Send address corrections to: New Products page 144 Classified page 154 RECORDING Engineer /Producer - - P.O. Box 2449 People on the Move - page 158 Advertiser's Index - page 158 Hollywood, California 90078 (213) 467 -1111 June 1985 D R -e /p 5 sews Letters Views TRADEMARK CLARIFICATION Recently, I have seen a number of phones, I would like to expand upon the small monitors which are using our article written by Professor Lowell from: Edward M. Long Nearfield MonitorTM trademark. The Cross entitled "Performance Assess- E.M. Long Associates only monitors which can legitimately ments of Studio Microphones," which Oakland, CA use this trademark at present are the appeared in the February 1985 issue of I just wanted to express my apprecia- MDM -4 and MDM -TA3, manufactured R -e/p. tion to R -e /p for its care in making sure by Calibration Standard Instruments. First let me correct Professor Cross' that the Time Align , which is pres- As I have always done with our Time presumption that "Bruel & Kjaer is ently licensed to UREI /JBL, Calibra- Align" trademark, I am continuing to committed exclusively to the manufac- tion Standard Instruments, and Modul- contact companies and studios who use turing of pressure transducer [omnidi- aar Sound for use on certain qualified the trademarks without a license. rectional] microphones for audio record- models, is clearly labelled as such. ing." I would like to reassure Professor I am not certain whether UREI /JBL MICROPHONE ASSESSMENTS Cross and your readership that Bruel & has notified you yet that the trademark Kjaer is committed to the research and Time Align is registered and should be from: Adrian Weidmann, development of "B &K quality" products used with the "R" in a circle. Some of Marketing consultant/ which address the trends and needs of their literature still uses the "TM" to recording engineer the entire professional audio industry, indicate the trademark, but they will be Bruel & Kjaer now and for the future. We here at B &K changing over. Copenhagen, Denmark are well aware of the fact that the pres- In some studio information, I have Let me begin by saying how much we sure transducer (omnidirectional) mic- seen the unauthorized use of our trade- here in the Electro- Acoustic Group rophones alone is not the panacea for all mark and it is possible that they don't enjoy your publication. It provides us the problems encountered during the realize that they need to meet certain with tremendous insights to the people audio recording process, just a wonder- standards to be granted a license for and products in the professional audio ful beginning. their "custom time aligned" monitors. industry, and hence are able to gear our Secondly, due to the tremendously The only studio which has the right to research and development of new pro- coherent phase response of the B &K do this at present is Criteria Studio, of ducts and support material accordingly. Series 4000 microphones, it is in fact Miami, which has two custom Time As a recording engineer myself, cur- possible to get an excellent stereo image, Align A systems, designed and qualified rently working with Bruel & Kjaer in not to mention the extended flat fre- by us to use the trademark. conjunction with the Series 4000 Micro- quency response, utilizing a "closely - spaced" microphone technique. Any type of symphonic, chamber ensemble, choral, organ or recital (the type of for- mat used for Professor Cross' micro- Enter A NEW WORLD phone assessment) recording will benefit from a "closely- spaced" (A -B, 20 to 50cm) microphone technique using the of Audio Excellence B &K Series 4000 Microphones. A variation on this technique is New World Audio specializes in achieved by the use of the "Jecklin- selling quality audio Disk." equipment. Equipment you can Mr. Jecklin and many other count on today, European recording engineers have tomorrow, ..