Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site angband.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!mordor!angband!sjc From: sjc@angband.UUCP (Steve Correll) Newsgroups: net.music.classical,net.audio Subject: Re: Bernstein's new "West Side Story" (recording producer blues) Message-ID: <63@angband.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 13:50:12 EDT Article-I.D.: angband.63 Posted: Mon Jun 24 13:50:12 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:02:23 EDT References: <395@olivee.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.music.classical:1141 net.audio:5186 > It was interesting that this recording was being made by DGG and that > they used Andrew Kazdin as a producer. Is it mere coincidence that > it has been years since DGG produced a recording that had any sense of > space or ambience, and that Kazdin has been responsible for a number > of CBS multi-mike monstrosities? Readers in the NYC, DC, or San Francisco areas might be interested in picking up a recent issue of the "Pulse" tabloid available for free at Tower Records. The cover sports a headline about "Restoring 20 year old analog recordings for CDs", and inside is an interesting article claiming that the record companies are hiring their old producers back as consultants to perform miracles in remixing classic recordings for CD reissue. It quotes Kazdin and other producers who used to work for CBS; one of them (Kazdin?) claims that the problem with the old Bernstein recordings is that Lenny used to demand "punch" and "presence" when he listened to playbacks in the control room. He also claims to have recanted his former preference for multi-miking, and says he thinks that the DG engineers have convinced Bernstein to settle for a more natural sound. I was amused, because I don't like the sound of the Bernstein/DG live recordings any better than I liked the sound of the Bernstein/Columbia studio recordings. -- --Steve Correll sjc@s1-b.ARPA, ...!decvax!decwrl!mordor!sjc, or ...!ucbvax!dual!mordor!sjc