Pro-level live recording (with video)

[Rudy4]

I'm not sure how many might be interested in this, but there seems to be an ever-increasing interest in live performance recording, particularly when it's done in a pro-level studio environment. Great recordings, done in any manner, are certainly still desirable, but I see more and more reference to polished audio recording combined with video of live bands. Perhaps it's the same thing that made MTV so initially successful.

Whatever the reason, there's a lot of really great stuff out there like the "Live at Electric Lady Studios" sessions.

Here's a very nice behind-the-scenes overview of the process as done by Minnesota Public Radio Station 89.3 FM, The Current. Lots of stuff relating to the room, set-up regimen, live takes, etc.

http://www.thecurrent.org/feature/20...urrent-studios

I'll close with a nice example from Drive By Truckers for their in-studio at MPR 89.3.

https://youtu.be/aQQB7rkZZmk

[Dan Lampton]

I love this! Thanks for passing it on.

[Yamaha Man]

Thanks for posting this. It reminds me of how instruments are supposed to sound !!!!

[KevWind]

Two excellent sources for great pro music videos are "The Transatlantic Sessions" by Pelicula Films Ltd, funded by BBC Scotland and RTE of Ireland

And another company that makes great videos is Music Fog
Here is a Music Fog production of one of my favorite bands Elephant Revival "Remembering a Beginning"




Darrel Scott, Transatlantic Sessions "The Open Door"

[Bob Womack]

A subject that is close to my heart!

Bob

[FrankHudson]

Originally Posted by Rudy4

I'm not sure how many might be interested in this, but there seems to be an ever-increasing interest in live performance recording, particularly when it's done in a pro-level studio environment. Great recordings, done in any manner, are certainly still desirable, but I see more and more reference to polished audio recording combined with video of live bands. Perhaps it's the same thing that made MTV so initially successful.

Whatever the reason, there's a lot of really great stuff out there like the "Live at Electric Lady Studios" sessions.

Here's a very nice behind-the-scenes overview of the process as done by Minnesota Public Radio Station 89.3 FM, The Current. Lots of stuff relating to the room, set-up regimen, live takes, etc.

http://www.thecurrent.org/feature/20...urrent-studios

I'll close with a nice example from Drive By Truckers for their in-studio at MPR 89.3.

https://youtu.be/aQQB7rkZZmk

That Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser studio used by the Current is a great room and the folks who've engineered in it are great and knowledgeable guys. The old big room studios like it are just about gone, but it's really an interesting sonic environment. It's not dead, but it's not echoey like a gym either. Of course, it was built and tuned by experts to achieve that decades ago.

[Rudy4]

TransAtlantic Sessions I've been deeply in love with for a long time!

Another favorite which I'm spacing on is one I saw on PBS with Alison Krause & band, Jerry Douglas, Robert Plant, Buddy Miller, T-Bone Burnett doing a live video in a really nice room with lots of wood and Persian rugs. I'm always looking at the mics and placement...