Sound City

[John Norris]

The 40 Watt Club showed Dave Grohl's new documentary, Sound City, tonight - fucking killer! Especially through their PA.

Sound City

As the doc states early on, what set this studio apart from others back in the day was its Neve board ($75,000 in the early '70s!) and this big square room, which theoretically should be far less than acoustically ideal, but, together with the Neve, produced a ballsy drum sound that was unprecedented.

 

[Adam Whetham]

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Pre-ordered it and loved it also. Well worth the 10 bucks.

Its on amazon instant for those that want to pick it up.

 

[David Luscombe]

Best movie/doco in a long time!!!!!

 

[John Norris]

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Here's a transcript of an NPR interview with Dave Grohl about Sound City.

Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element ? In A Machine : NPR

 

[Per Søvik]

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Loved the film, ordered the CD right after I was finished watching it. But I had problems downloading, and have given up on the 1920HD version, I get to about 70% and then it stops.

But describing the EQ of a Neve as "like the tone control of your stereo" I think is dumbing it down to a level where you might just as well not say anything about it at all :razz:

 

[Matt Perkins]

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Here's a transcript of an NPR interview with Dave Grohl about Sound City.

Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element ? In A Machine : NPR

Thanks for the link, John.

 

[Mike Caldwell]

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I ordered the DVD as soon I read this thread, just watched it last weekend. It's great, anyone who is even remotely into music and or sound should watch it.

 

[mark anderson]

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I watched it on a 3 day rental from Amazon. Enjoyed the movie but it kinda felt like an advert for 606 Studio at the end. A really good and enjoyable advert at that. It's mind blowing how much of the music that came out of there had a sound that's recognizable. Kinda like the Wrecking Crew, it was a sound you liked but never quite realized how prevalent it was.

 

[Adam Whetham]

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Mark, Kind of got that feeling at the end also. I think Dave did that a little bit to showcase how much he cared and loved that Neve board.

My favorite part of the documentary had to be when Dave was interviewing Rupert Neve, and Neve starts going off into transistor land and Dave is just smiling and nodding. You can tell he's just sitting there Thinking. "I have a slight understanding of what your saying but most of it is flying over my head."

 

[Jay Barracato]

Water Music in Hoboken also has a Neve 8088 into a pair of Studer 24 track tape machines.

 

[Rob Ottaviano]

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You guys didn't notice the rack of Avid 192's next to the Studer? Ha!

 

[Per Søvik]

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You guys didn't notice the rack of Avid 192's next to the Studer? Ha!

A tape based studio is impossible these days, tape is a scarce commodity that is saved for special occasions. Even when working with analogue tape as the main medium, it makes all the sense in the world to record digitally all the time, because it doesn't cost anything.

 

[Adam Whetham]

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A tape based studio is impossible these days, tape is a scarce commodity that is saved for special occasions. Even when working with analogue tape as the main medium, it makes all the sense in the world to record digitally all the time, because it doesn't cost anything.

Unless you're Dave Grohl, Then you make a temporary Tape Studio in your Garage and record a Grammy winning album in it.

 

[Rob Gow]

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Unless you're Dave Grohl, Then you make a temporary Tape Studio in your Garage and record a Grammy winning album in it.

So now he's recorded a Grammy winning album in the studio, in his garage, and in his basement.


Now what.

 

[John Horvath]

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So now he's recorded a Grammy winning album in the studio, in his garage, and in his basement.

Now what.

The attic?