Re: [ARSCLIST] Quarter-inch splicing tabs

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aaron:

That's really sad news. I too, am a huge fan of Joe T. I look at it this way -- at least Joe got a 
good pile of dough for years of great work. There are many classic studio owners not so lucky.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Levinson" <aaron.levinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Quarter-inch splicing tabs


> Unfortunately Joe T. (who I love) sold the studio to a total moron who ripped out the "A" room 
> that all the old Philly soul classics and Young Americans were recorded in!
>
> He turned the studio that was home to the second highest number of Gold records ever into just 
> another over-designed Pro-Tools dungeon and destroyed a critical piece of recording history and 
> Philadelphia lore in one swell foop. I still lose sleep thinking of this travesty.
>
> Still licking my psychic wounds,
>
> Aaron
> On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Marcos Sueiro wrote:
>
> > 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