After a conventional CD recording session comes the post-production session, in which the recorded sounds are analysed, mixed and edited. The mixing involves making precise adjustments to the relative loudness and tone quality of individual instruments and different parts of the music. This is achieved using a mixing desk – a large sloping console, often with dozens of ...
The post horn is a small, valveless brass instrument once used by guards on mail coaches to announce arrivals and departures. Originally bow shaped, in the seventeenth century post horns were bent in a single loop to play the fundamental pitch bb'. Clearly these were small instruments, perhaps only 7 cm (3 in) across; nevertheless they appear in ...
The last album of new Pink Floyd material was released in 1994, but the subsequent years were to highlight the band’s legendary status. Although Waters, Gilmour, Mason and Wright would throw out solo albums and Gilmour and Waters would tour occasionally, the sheer power and size of the Floyd musical glacier would continually move forward to add ...
March Grammy Award Although The Division Bell was the last new album and tour vehicle for Pink Floyd there was an unexpected coda in March 1995 when the track ‘Marooned’ won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Over a relaxed rhythm and sound effects of floating seagulls and even whale-song Gilmour had unfurled one of his finest, most-sensitive and ...
January Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Although Pink Floyd were not defending their heavyweight title in the ring anymore, they were no longer anonymous figures and enjoyed all the personal trappings of being one of the world’s most successful and influential bands. On 17 January 1996 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York Gilmour, Wright and Mason were ...
July Waters’ In The Flesh Tours Begin In July 1999 Roger Waters commenced his first major tour since promoting Radio K.A.O.S. in 1987. Playing to enthusiastic crowds Waters delivered a set that carefully balanced the Floyd legacy with his own solo work. The band were drilled to perfection and included famed Sixties singer P.P. Arnold on vocals ...
March Is There Anybody Out There ? The Wall Live 1980–81 The twentieth anniversary of The Wall was not only celebrated with a DVD release featuring a delicious commentary from Waters, director Alan Parker and artist Gerald Scarfe but a live album pieced together from 16 hours of music recorded during the Earl’s Court performances. Is There Anybody Out There ...
June The Meltdown Festival When Robert Wyatt was asked to curate the Meltdown Festival at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in June 2001 an eclectic mix of artists was guaranteed. The surprise package was Dave Gilmour agreeing to play in a venue that only seated 2,000 people with no room for airships and inflatables. Concentrating on the music ...
October Steve O’Rourke Dies The first member of Pink Floyd passed away on 30 October 2003 when manager Steve O’Rourke died in Miami of a stroke aged 63. The butt of early cruel verbal jokes (Waters once called him a ‘glorified booker’) he was the indefatigable engineer ensuring that the Floyd engine ran smoothly, organizing everything from tour finances to ...
September The Strat Pack Concert Throughout his career, the Fender Stratocaster was David Gilmour’s guitar of choice and he had always been comfortable to discuss his taste in plank-spanking equipment ever since joining the band. On 24 September 2004 he helped celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fender guitar by participating in a charity concert at Wembley. Gilmour used the ...
July Live 8 The most amazing thing about Floyd’s brief four-song reunion for Bob ‘Pink’ Geldof’s Live 8 concert was the group hug. That it was initiated by Waters as the band prepared to walk off stage shows how he had mellowed. The brief reformation was hammered together by Geldof whose powers of persuasion had intrigued Nick Mason and finally allowed ...
March Gilmour’s On An Island David Gilmour celebrated his 60th birthday by releasing another solo album On An Island. With nothing to prove to anybody he pleased himself with an eclectic wistful bag of songs, mostly co-written with his wife, Polly Samson. These ranged from the solo acoustic murmur of ‘Castellorizon’ to the compelling harmony dream of the title ...
May Barrett Tribute Concert The all-star tribute to Syd Barrett held at The Barbican on 10 May 2007 seemed to be a perfect opportunity for Pink Floyd to ‘shine on’ themselves in tribute to their original leading light. Sadly, although Gilmour, Wright and Mason played the right card in closing the show with ‘Arnold Layne’, joker in the pack ...
May Gilmour Wins Ivor Novello Award On 22 May 2008 at the Grosvenor Hotel in London, Dave Gilmour was awarded an ‘Ivor’: an Ivor Novello Award for his Lifetime Contribution to British music. The award was presented to him by long-time friend and a man who deserved one himself: Robert Wyatt. That the winners were nominated by fellow songwriters made ...
, reflect the status of the on-screen virtual controls. Examples of such controllers include the Mackie Control Universal and the Digidesign ICON. Mastering Mastering is the final stage of music post-production that takes place prior to the manufacture and distribution of the chosen medium (CD, vinyl, DVD). At the mastering studio, an engineer will often use a specialist ...
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