Sujet Les mixs les plus osés.

Citation : Actually, originally in EMI terminology it was called “balance and control” engineer; you balanced the sections of the orchestra. And our overdubs used to be called “superimpositions.” In my second week at EMI, as a second engineer, I had to do a superimposition with a classical orchestra: Elizabeth Schwartzkopf doing “Cosi Fan Tutte,” singing over a recorded orchestra. On classical sessions, you had to record in quadruple stereo—four machines running, and of course, sending the music tape for her to hear—on the speakers, not headphones, we didn’t have headphones for foldback. So you had to play back, while recording on all four machines! [Laughs] And you never recorded over a take, you had to keep track of numbers with a mechanical clock on the tape machine, and you had to write out all the boxes . . . . [Laughs] It was horrendous. I’ll never forget it. I actually had nightmares.