the job market sucks

I think Steve may be the one person in the world who is too good to work at Abbey Road...

How did this letter come about anyhow?

I don't have them around for verification, but I'm sure the last two Shellac records were mastered at Abbey Road...so...

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Steve masters any record he can at Abbey Road. He usually recommends that other bands do the same (see his posts on this forum).

I don't deny Abbey Road is a great studio, but why are they turning him down for a job???

danmaksym wrote:I think Steve may be the one person in the world who is too good to work at Abbey Road...

How did this letter come about anyhow?

None of us have any idea. Probably some kind of prank. It worked -- we laughed ourselves stupid when it came.

-steve

Steve,
but what would you do if they did hire you on the spot?

a) would not take the job and laugh in their face
b) take the job and serve as icon
c) just burst into tears and say : thank you so much!

I hear mastering at Abbey Road is done exclusively within Sonic Solutions. Clearly analog or digital makes no difference- it's the person.

>>I hear mastering at Abbey Road is done exclusively within Sonic Solutions. Clearly analog or digital makes no difference- it's the person.

not so on the 'exclusively' part, unless they have changed over in the last year

my band has had five (i think) records mastered there, the most recent being about a year and a half ago. they've all been done from the 1/2" master with analog eq.

they do store them as a file prior to knocking together the 1630--i don't know what format they use to do that. but i took your statement to mean that the mastering is always done digitally, which is not the case for everyone.

the lp masters have actually been 100% analog--they all sound marvelous

swordfish wrote:I hear mastering at Abbey Road is done exclusively within Sonic Solutions. Clearly analog or digital makes no difference- it's the person.

They use 24-bit storage of digital sessions, and use Sonic Solutions for editing. Analog masters are transferred through the TG-series transfer desk, then captured into 24-bit Sonic. Digital masters are played through their own converters or loaded into the editing program as imports. Most people prefer going through the desk.

For LP cutting, the analog signal comes from the desk directly (they have preview heads on the tape machines for azimuth computation) and is the cleanest, best quality cutting in the world.

best,
-steve