OT: The Engineers Who Changed Recording

**LICORNE** · September 18th, 2012, 12:24 PM

I have to mention Neumann and RCA and those 2 particular mics.

M250 and KU 3a

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**Old Guy** · September 18th, 2012, 08:06 PM

I thought it was about engineers? so wouldn't it be about people from those companies not the mics?

**mah** · September 19th, 2012, 12:44 AM

A concise article on Multi-tracking:

History of multitrack recording - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some innovation in recording The Beatles:

Recording: Five Recording Innovations By The Beatles - Pro Sound Web

**joyspring** · September 19th, 2012, 01:18 AM

John Eargle 1931-2007 (John M. Eargle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Multiple Grammy and Oscar-winning recording engineer, mostly for Delos, musician and an actual Electrical Engineer (fancy that). Past president and fellow of the Audio Engineering Society.

Part of the teams at JBL that modernised both control room monitors and Cinema sound in the early 1980s (the latter for which he was awarded a Technical Oscar in 2001). Senior Director of Product Development and Application for JBL Professional.

Author of the authoritative microphone reference (The Microphone Book, Focal Press 2001). I use this superb text in my class.

His recording of Dvorak's Requiem (Macal and NJ Symphony) is one of my favourites. His work served a greater educational purpose as it effectively endeavoured to quantify the `voodoo' sadly inherent in the audio recording business, within the limits of contemporary knowledge of psychoacoustics.

Yes, he worked for JBL and it was his contributions that helped displace Altec from professional recording and cinema. However, he was affiliated with Altec early in his career.

BobR

**LICORNE** · September 19th, 2012, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by Old Guy

I thought it was about engineers? so wouldn't it be about people from those companies not the mics?

This is hard to find but I`ll get it cause the RCA was made for Hollywood and the M250 has similar sound characteristic. Very high sensitivity ideal for orchestra recording.THey replace the DECCA mics in the DECCA tree.

http://recordinghacks.com/microphones/RCA/KU-3A

DPA 4015A Wide Cardioid Microphone