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- r\ December 199 !4+5,0(1 £2_00 STUDIO N D E 4 1234%083 .4110101111111 IMMINUOI u t e 0000i00000000c00000 P.1iS Tria Ise.O ix..Titli John wer= 00000000 Arch 01 12> 770144 www.americanradiohistory.com Focusrite with Conway Oceanway Hollywood Hollywood Metropolis Music Mill London Nashville Studio Jive fi_ Bop Tokyo Mmabatho Master Rock Electric Lady London New York with Focusrite Technology and Distribution Unit 2 - Bourne End Business Centre Fax: + +44 (0) 628 819443 Bourne End - Bucks SL8 5AS Voice: + +44 (0) 628 819456 www.americanradiohistory.com STUDIO SOUND AND BROADCAST ENGINEERING Control room at Westside Studio Sound's viewpoint on events and trends Editorial: and their implications 5 News:Events, news, moves and comment from inside and outside the recording industry Information on new products, developments, Products: upgrades and software updates 20 Product updates and developments from another side of the Music News: business. Compiled by Zenon Schoepe 26 Keeping abreast of live sound news and equipment. Live Sound: Compiled by Mike Lethby 28 Peter Ridsdale talks to ex -lead Zeppelin bass John Paul Jones: player about production techniques 1 Amazon studios in Liverpool developed their own E¡` Em p iricall Y EQ circuits by experimentation. Tim Smith asks why 35 Janet Angus reports on this well -known West London studio Westside: founded by Alan Winstanley and Clive Langer 39 Simon Sanders continues his look at A Future of Mixingg 2: Yamaha DMP series 42 Chris Kimsey co- produced The Rolling Kimse Y On Flash ppoint: Stones live album Flashpoint and the I -Max version of the concert film. Simon Croft talks to him about both 46 How not to mic the Count Basie Band; Canon's entry into Business: consumer hi -fi. By Barry Fox 50 Ten reasons to look forward to 1992. Comment from our US Perspective: columnist Martin Polon 52 Mike Collins reviews this 8 -track digital Yamaha DRM8: mixer /recorder 56 Dave Foister reviews the Aiwa DAT player turned Aiwa HHB1 Pro pro by UK distributor HHB Communications 64 The easy way to find what you need Index 91; from Studio Sound in 1991 66 www.americanradiohistory.com ScreenSound Digital Audio -for -Video Editor /Mixer The Future of Audio Post -Production SoundNet Digital Audio Network SSL's Sound Net' is the world's only multi-user digital audio network. It adds major operational efficiencies to the ease of use and effectiveness already provided by individual ScreenSound' editing and mixing systems. Projects can be transferred from system to system, without down- loading. Off-line back -up and restoration make every hour of operator time productive - working for clients. Find out why Fox TV, Los Angeles; GTN, Detroit; Soundcastle / Post Modern, Los Angeles and Musifex, Arlington, VA., are already committed to networked systems for their future post -production needs. Solid State Logic International Headquarters: Begbroke, Oxford, England 0X5 1 RU Tel: (0865) 842300 ®DIGITAL Paris (1) 34 60 46 66 Milan (2) 61217 20 Tokyo (3) 54 7411 44 New York (212) 3151111 Los Angeles (213) 463 4444 Toronto (416) 363 0101 www.americanradiohistory.com STUDIO AND BROADCAST ENGINEERING December 1991 Volume 33 Number 12 ISSN 0144 5944 EDITORIAL Editor: Keith Spencer -Allen Assistant Editor: Julian Mitchell Production: Ann Lowe Secretary: Mary Walsh Consultant: Sam Wise Columnists: Barry Fox, Martin Polon (US) Regular Contributors: Janet Angus Mike Lethby James Betteridge David Mellor Mike Collins Terry Nelson Ben Duncan Francis Rumsey Dave Foister Zenon Schoepe Yasmin Hashmi Patrick Stapley ADVERTISEMENTS Executive Ad Manager: Steve Grice Wrapping up another one Deputy Ad Manager: Phil Dearing Advertisement Production: Mark Trainer Magazine publishing is an odd business because you are always out of time. This issue Secretary: Lianne Davey carries a cover date of December and as such is nominally the last issue of 1991. This CIRCULATION page is, however, being written in early October and it is hot outside and as such very Circulation and Development Manager: hard to think about any form of end of the year comment. Colin Enderson Last year I said that 1991 looked like more of the same as 1990 the same problems Controlled Circulation Manager: - Maria Udy and the same topics. I have to admit that I was wrong - it was far worse than one Enquiries: See classified advertisement might have imagined. The economic situation has been very difficult in most areas of the world and there is no denying that this has had its impact on the sound recording Director: Doug Shuard Publisher: Steve Haysom industry. There are, however, a few more positive pointers. Just prior to the New York AES I met two companies who said that they were actually doing better at present than EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING OFFICES Spotlight Publications Ltd, 8th Floor, Ludgate at any time in their history and no, they weren't receivers or accountants but pro -audio House, 245 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9UR, manufacturers. UK. Tel: 071-620 3636. Fax: 071- 4018036. The New York AES also seemed very buoyant with good attendance on all days and a NEWSTRADE DISTRIBUTION (UK) general feel of positiveness about it. So if there is a gradual improvement in business UMD, 1 Benwell Road, London N7 7AX, UK. Tel: 071 -700 4600. Fax: 071 -607 3352. towards the end of the year at least there will be a more promising start to the New Year. AMERICAN OFFICE Publishing Services Manager: Fred Vega In other areas '92 is shaping up for a rerun of the same subjects in a different guise. Studio Sound, 2 Park Avenue, 18th Floor, One of the areas that has been concerning record companies over the last few years has New York, NY 10016, USA. Tel: (212) 779 -1212. Fax: (212) 213 -3484. been the emergence of the `perfect original' in the form of the CD and, of course, the `perfect copying medium ' in DAT. The unpreparedness of the record companies and JAPAN & FAR EAST AGENT Contact: Mikio Tsuchiya, Media Sales Japan, Inc, their representative organisations to deal with the copyright problems that might arise Tamuracho Bldg 3 3 14, Shimbashi, Minato -Ku, from consumer use of the new media arguably killed off DAT as a consumer medium. Tokyo, Japan. Tel: (03) 504 -1925. Telex: J25666. Fax: (03) 595 -1709. Philips DCC will incorporate SCMS `single copy' from the start and we might assume that there will be something similar with Mini Disc. We understand that next year we © Spotlight Publications Ltd 1991 all rights reserved. will see attention turned to DAB as the early noises have already been made. Digital Audio Broadcasting is something that will revolutionise radio by the use of Origination by Ashford Scanning Studio Ltd, The Print Centre, 70 -72 John Wilson Business digital encoding of the actual broadcast signal. The BBC held practical demonstrations Park, Thanet Way, Chestfield, Kent CT5 3QT, UK earlier in the year and it was one of the featured topics of the NAB Convention in Las Printed in England by Riverside Press, St Ives plc, 2 Grant Close, Gillingham Business Park, Vegas. It will mean allocation of new radio frequencies and a complete reappraisal of Gillingham, Kent ME8 OQB, UK. radio. More importantly, although some from of data compression will be used, the Studio Sound and Broadcast Engineering quality will most likely be superior to conventional FM. And it is this last point that incorporates Sound International and Beat appears to be concerning copyright holders. So the rights and wrongs of this new Instrumental. medium are now bound to be a matter of conjecture until an agreement is reached. To Studio Sound is published on the third Friday of the best of my knowledge there are no dates for the future implementation of DAB as the month preceding the cover date. The magazine is available on a rigidly controlled requested basis, yet so speculation will just run and run. only to qualified personnel (see classified Yes, 1992 looks much like 1991 from here but maybe I'll be wrong again, and maybe advertisement for terms) this time for the better. T To close may I wish you, on behalf of the staff of Studio Sound, a very Merry ABC Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Keith Spencer -Allen Total average net circulation of 19,166 per issue during 1990. UK: 6,655. Overseas: 12,511. 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