Tchad Blake interview (2005)

Post by **RobB** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:06 pm

a Tchad Blake interview from early last year.

http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_engineer ... had_blake/

The 'new record' being 'The World Is Saved' means that we can reasonably date the completion of this album as being late 2004....possibly early January 2005 at the latest.

barrett · Post by **barrett** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:19 pm

From Stina to Bonnie Raitt and Tracy bloody Chapman ???
Blimey.
Talk about going from the sublime to the ridicularse

Post by **sound world** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:28 am

Tchad also does The Bad Plus,who I saw in concert a few months back.Bizarrely for a cult act,they're a standard jazz trio,piano upright bass,drums (hey! and the drummer shares my name!).Good ,though I'n puzzled why the rock guys have singled them out.

And,ahem,I have a little connection to Stina via Tchad Blake.His wife Jackie (also a Realworld engineer,mentioned in the article) engineered an album I did in '99-'00.She used a microphone that was shaped like a human head,and always referred to it as 'Blake'.

(This was just before they got married).She was great,wacky,hair in pink dreads.

Post by **RobB** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:55 pm

sound world wrote:She used a microphone that was shaped like a human head

I seem to remember that the first time i ever heard about this microphone 'configuration'(sic) was around 1982 when Pink Floyd were using it for their 'The Final Cut' album..... it was tied in with producing holophonic soundfx i think.

Just browsing the cd booklet and there is a credit 'holophonics by zuccarelli labs ltd' so i guess it was they who developed the system.

Another piece of useless infomation.....

Post by **sound world** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:01 am

Here it is,it's called the Neumann KU 100,(or Blake,if you're Jackie Blake).NB Jackie gets a credit on 'This Is'...