RSR276 - Kevin McMahon - How to Get The "Band in a Room" Sound
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Kevin McMahon of Marcata Recording first started by The Walkmen in 2000 as a purely analog facility located in Harlem inside what had been a Nascar production facility.
Kevin joined in 2003 and took over daily operations, bringing his collection of vintage microphones, preamps, and a long history of studying great live performance from the decade of work as a live sound engineer/designer at the now-defunct but not forgotten venue Brownies in New York City's East Village.
Doing live sound is where Kevin developed his love of living interactions between musicians, and the ability to recognize the spirit of an artists' vision and to act with a sense of urgency toward nurturing an environment to allow that vision to be realized at any cost.
Some of Kevin's credits include: Real Estate, Pile, Parlor Walls, Mr Gnome, The Walkmen, The French Kicks, Diarrhea Planet, and Herzog to name just a few.
Thanks so much to Caleb for making our introduction.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, PreSonus, API Audio, Isotope, Sound Porter, Mastering, JZ microphones, and Spectra-1964, |
| 0:14.0 | on the JZB-B-29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 STX-100 Micpre, C-610 Complementer, and Isotope RX and Ozone. |
| 0:24.4 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:26.4 | The notion of how music is very close to a type of spirituality in terms of what the relationship is between the artist and the audience. |
| 0:36.9 | On some level, I believe we perceive the artist as this superhuman thing. And in that moment, I feel like people fundamentally believe that they are on a different stratosphere than these people. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. I'm Lid Shaw and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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| 3:04.0 | bringing you into the studio to learn from recording professionals so that you can make your |
| 3:08.5 | best record ever and be a rock star of the studio yourself. My guest today is Kevin McMahon of |
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