RSR298 - Peter Deimel - Recording Analog Post Punk in France at Black Box Studio
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Peter Deimel, recording engineer and owner of studio Black Box in the French countryside of the Anjou region, close to the Loire Valley. Peter is a native German living and working in France since 1993 having attended the Technische Universität to study acoustics, electronics and communication techniques.
After school, Peter began learning from Chicago based engineer Iain Burgess who was also Steve Albini's mentor. As a UK native Iain Burgess had wanted to return to Europe and called to discuss the idea of building a residential studio in France with Peter. A few months later they bought an old farm in the french countryside and built their "dream studio", studio Black Box.
Eleven years ago Iain sadly passed away but almost 28 years later Peter is still there happily recording music and running the studio with his wife Sylvie. Peter's discography encompasses a variety of music in a variety of languages and consistently sounds great for each genre.
Thanks to Steve Albini for making our introduction.
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| 0:33.5 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:37.7 | His saying, when he watched me, when I did my first sessions and he watched me working, |
| 0:43.1 | he would sometimes just say, don't get stuck like in a rabbit hole or something. |
| 0:46.4 | Like once I was going for whatever the best bass drum sound in the world |
| 0:49.9 | and spending two hours on the bass drum sound and everyone is waiting, |
| 0:52.8 | he would just tell me, get out of that rabbit hole and look at the big picture, move on, |
| 0:56.8 | come back to that if it's really an issue, but don't spend too much time on it. |
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