Red Mosquito

Hi all,

My audio production professor recently learned that Pearl Jam recorded an album using Binaural techniques and wanted to know if there were any good articles, videos, etc. about that particular recording process/session. Is there?

sorry - anything more specifically related to binaural?

Lou Reed was a binaural freak and recorded a few albums with that technique in the 70's, including a humorous live album called "Take No Prisoners" which was frequent listening in many touring vans that I've been in.

stip wrote:Hi all,

My audio production professor recently learned that Pearl Jam recorded an album using Binaural techniques and wanted to know if there were any good articles, videos, etc. about that particular recording process/session. Is there?

The odds that stip is just a lecherouslittlestump side account just became greater than zero.

stip wrote:Hi all,

My audio production professor recently learned that Pearl Jam recorded an album using Binaural techniques and wanted to know if there were any good articles, videos, etc. about that particular recording process/session. Is there?

Did you tell them it is your favorite PJ album?

Monkey_Driven wrote:

stip wrote:Hi all,

My audio production professor recently learned that Pearl Jam recorded an album using Binaural techniques and wanted to know if there were any good articles, videos, etc. about that particular recording process/session. Is there?

Did you tell them it is your favorite PJ album?

he still is

Monkey_Driven wrote:

stip wrote:Hi all,

My audio production professor recently learned that Pearl Jam recorded an album using Binaural techniques and wanted to know if there were any good articles, videos, etc. about that particular recording process/session. Is there?

Did you tell them it is your favorite PJ album?

Actually, he said he read my guided tour and asked if i wanted to come talk to the class about it. It's tough because while I would love to actually spend 80 minutes talking about Binaural (a lesser pearl jam album but no one is asking me to come lecture about Ten) he's mostly interested in production details and processes I know fuck all about.

stip wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

stip wrote:Hi all,

My audio production professor recently learned that Pearl Jam recorded an album using Binaural techniques and wanted to know if there were any good articles, videos, etc. about that particular recording process/session. Is there?

Did you tell them it is your favorite PJ album?

Actually, he said he read my guided tour and asked if i wanted to come talk to the class about it. It's tough because while I would love to actually spend 80 minutes talking about Binaural (a lesser pearl jam album but no one is asking me to come lecture about Ten) he's mostly interested in production details and processes I know fuck all about.

I couldn't find anything specific to Binaural, but there are plenty of online articles about Tchad Blake's recording processes. He uses a mixture of a binaural dummy head and separately close mic'd instruments.

There’s a lot of stuff. There’s even a gearslutz thread.

It was a pretty dumb album name, particularly as they dropped the concept and junked most of the binaurally-mixed tracks anyway.

Birds in Hell wrote:It was a pretty dumb album name, particularly as they dropped the concept and junked most of the binaurally-mixed tracks anyway.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:It was a pretty dumb album name, particularly as they dropped the concept and junked most of the binaurally-mixed tracks anyway.

Exactly what I was thinking.

BOB stepped in and stuck his mixing dick in all the holes and fucked it up.

You have to think, could this album be made today? Could a "dummy" head be used? That's pretty insensitive. One thing is for sure, they wouldn't get the growling dog at the beginning of Rival past the PETA activists of today.

wat

The funny thing about that album is that it didn't matter at all how the tracks were mixed and what tracks they included and what order they were in, because they were all good, well-produced songs. They probably bitched and moaned and stressed out over it and alienated people for no fucking reason.

I'm not sure there's another album I've yet heard in my years on this earth that has altered more favorably in my estimation over time than Binaural.

From first ever listen to most recent listen, that fucker has moved mountains in my head.