RSR349 - Bill Cheney - Understanding Audio Peaks at Spectra1964
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
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🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Bill Cheney co-owner with Jim Romney of Spectra1964. Bill designs mic pre amps, eqs, and compressor limiters for studios following in the footsteps of William Dilley who founded the original Spectra Sonics company in 1964.
Bill has been a guest on the podcast before to talk about the history of Spectra Sonics and Spectra 1964 on episodes RSR227 and 269. So you should check those episodes out too and today we are going to talk about what's new at Spectra1964, the importance of understanding Peaks, how they affect your recordings, mixes, productions and ultimately masters and how Spectra1964 handles peak content to make sure your records sound amazing (like the many great records recorded with the Spectra 101 amplifier circuit including Aerosmith, ZZ Top, KISS and John Lennon to name a few. Spotify playlist in show notes)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, Spectra-1964, |
| 0:06.5 | sampley, isotope, sonar works, and API. |
| 0:10.4 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now on the Spectra-1964 STX-100 micpree |
| 0:16.2 | in an API lunchbox mixed carefully through isotope RX and ozone. All recorded safely onto an OWCSSSD, |
| 0:25.1 | so get ready to rock. In fact, I was talking to a rather well-known musician the other day. He's |
| 0:30.8 | been around for 40 years, and he started using the 600 and hearing stuff he hadn't heard before, |
| 0:35.1 | and I said, yeah, but I said, I've had complaints about that because musicians that weren't at |
| 0:39.5 | your level, all of a sudden, their mistakes could be heard because the amplifiers weren't overloading. |
| 0:44.6 | You know, they're kind of like a lie detector. |
| 0:46.0 | If you had issues, it's going to show up because the overload is not readily apparent anymore. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah. readily apparent anymore. 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. |
| 1:28.9 | In my studio, I've got the Mac Mini M1 paired up with the OWC Mini-Stack SDK SDX Thunderbolt 4 certified storage and hub expansion solution to connect to all my dedicated audio drives, |
| 1:31.1 | sample libraries, and backup drives. |
| 1:36.6 | It's the perfect size to stack with the Mac Mini and add storage and connectivity over Thunderbolt or USB. |
| 1:37.6 | Whether you have the new or older Mac Mini, nothing stacks up in your studio quite like OWC. |
| 1:42.9 | Find the new Mini Stack STX and all your storage needs at maxails.com slash rock stars. |
| 1:54.0 | The Spectra-1964 C-610 comp limiter brings fast, clean, quiet, compression and limiting to your recordings and mixes. |
| 2:02.6 | The C610 includes the famous Spectra 101 amplifier used in legendary studios like Stacks, Arden, and Record Plant. |
| 2:09.6 | I love using my C610s for drums, vocals, guitars, and especially bass, which now sounds bigger than anything I've ever recorded before. |
| 2:18.3 | Make your mixes rock at spectra-1964.com. |
| 2:29.1 | Howdy Rockstars? It's your host, Lydj Shaw, and welcome back to recording studio rockstars, bringing you into the studio to learn from recording professionals so that you can make your best record ever and be a rock star of the studio yourself. |
| 2:44.4 | My guest today is Bill Cheney, co-owner with Jim Romney of Spectra 1964. |
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