Re: [ARSCLIST] Quarter-inch splicing tabs

[Marcos Sueiro <mls2137@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the correction --amazing that Sigma Sound was still working 
until two years ago. Truth be told, I was never a big fan of that sound, 
although it really is a feat of engineering...

marcos

--On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:18 PM -0500 Tom Fine 
<tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Marcos:
>
> It was Joe TarsiA, founder and owner of Sigma Sound Studios. Joe sold
> Sigma only a couple of years ago. That place was definitely home of the
> Philly Sound, second home of Gamble and Huff (sp?). Their NYC studio was
> the birthplace of the Village People, for better or worse (definitely
> better for Sigma, as all those gold records led to a disco-fueled hot
> hand).
>
> -- Tom Fine
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcos Sueiro" <mls2137@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Quarter-inch splicing tabs
>
>
> > I have
> > > had a couple of opportunities to be a "recording artist" (popular
> > > music, not classical) and I have found that as soon as musicians
> > > find out the opportunity for "changes via edit" exists, they
> > > immediately discover a near-infinite number of "flaws" in their
> > > solos which need to be corrected!
> >
> > So true. So goes also with artists who want to change the volume of one
> > track in the mix by half  of one dB, or move one note in a solo by
> > miliseconds.
> >
> > Perhaps my favourite quote from an ARSC Conference came in Philadelphia
> > from Joe Tarsio, pivotal  engineer for the "philly sound" of the 1970s:
> > "Remember, automation was supposed to *save* us  time!"
> >
> > Marcos