Ronald Trijber : one of the most successful broadcast music engineers in The Netherlands. Resolution Magazine asked ...
How do you make sure the quality of your mix is good, even if there is no time?
"At festivals, you usually only have a line check before the first performance, so you will need the first song to make your mix. How does the first song sound, how is it built up? From this you can decide whether it can be broadcast or not. A lot of times I make the deal that the first song a band plays is not broadcast. I've done things with bands like Radiohead and Red Hot Chili Peppers and I don't want that to sound “off” for the first few minutes. It has to be right. If on the other hand there is a good line check or even a soundcheck, you could decide to go ahead and broadcast it." ... See MoreSee Less

4 days ago

iZotope introduces many new features with the new RX6 Advanced: "Dialog Isolate reflects an evolution of the Deconstruct module and along with De-rustle has been at the top of my wish list for a long time. It offers a similarly simple set of controls that determine the strength of the algorithm and the amount of background noise to retain. Providing you proceed carefully, and your source audio cooperates, you can conjure up some very impressive results that otherwise would have been extremely difficult or impossible to obtain. We also found it gave me a more natural sounding result when trying to reduce excess reverberation than the De-reverb module provided." ... See MoreSee Less

5 days ago

Mike Prestwood Smith , while mixing Kingsman: The Golden Circle" "I've long been a proponent of mixing inside Pro Tools. I first started pre-dubbing entirely inside when I bought an Icon in 2005, and then in the last few years I have started final mixing entirely inside the box. It wasn't really until the Native engine came out that it sounded decent – sorry Pro Tools – but it opened up completely. Once, before that, when I did a show in Nuendo, I was shocked how much better-sounding it was at the time ... but Pro Tools has since caught up, and now there's no technical reason for not mixing inside the box anymore." ... See MoreSee Less

6 days ago

AEA Ribbon Mics RPQ2 preamp reviewed in Resolution Magazine: ... "AEA have always favoured input impedances that are somewhat higher than the norm on their pre-amps – a view driven largely by the desire to offer as little loading (and therefore colouration) to the output of a ribbon or dynamic mic as possible. The original RPQ featured an input impedance of around the 10k Ohm mark – higher than many – but still only about one third that of the ribbon optimised TRP. The RPQ2s "NoLoad" design takes things even further. With phantom power turned off, the input presents an impedance of 63k Ohms – switching phantom on drops this to 10k Ohms. The effect of this is like wringing every last bit of nuance out of a dynamic microphone, whilst never seeming to muddy up the low end." ... See MoreSee Less

7 days ago