bobkatz wrote on Mon, 21 March 2005 02:52 |
Those can't be B&Ws! Look like Ureis to me. Isn't that a coaxial driver on one of them?
BK
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Bob - the mains are indeed Ureis. Not something I've ever spent time monitoring through when I was there as they're more of "end of the day, lets crank it up and feel good about what we tracked" type of things than things you actually want to critically listen through while tracking. I've done a few sessions there tracking my string quartet where I've been much more of a player than an engineer. Nice studio with a comfy vibe, good mic closet and decent sounding live room. The mic pres in this particular Trident 80 are actually really nice sounding.
but look at the pic at on top of the console at the little guys with the yellow woofers though - those are indeed B&W nearfields. sound a heckuva lot better than the NS-10's (which aren't in that pic but they have a pair on top of the console there too) - I'll have to email Paul Mitchell, who used to be a staff engineer there, and find out what model they are (he has a pair for his own studio also). He told me a bit ago that they had discontinued them and that the recent B&W nearfields he heard did not measure up in any way.
Best regards,
Steve Berson