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Every now and then someone has the guts to take on audio recording the way it should be done, and show the "big" guys something. This very small studio is set up in rural Queensland with state of the industry art equipment for the recording of music. If that last sentence seems a little redundant, please let me explain. In my experience of large studios and the commercial products they produce these days, both in the studios (a while ago now) and as a consumer, it is blatantly obvious that the music is often (almost always) sacrificed for the sake of a commercial "sound". This generally consists of the "product" which incorporates some over-bosomed, under-dressed teenager singing flat and being constantly dragged back on to the note by the computerised mixing desk. Alternatively, a group of "talent-challenged" and "lyrically-challenged" musicians (wrong word really) trying to shock the populace in general with how many Four *%&^ letter words they can cram into a 3 minute song (?) / noise. End of rant number one. Rant number two coming up. What about established artists? Well, some have enough clout to get it done their way, but it seems that precious few do. A lot of recordings I hear are multi-channel mono sounds, with drummers who have arms apparently ten feet long on the sound stage, and a recorded perspective as flat as the aforesaid singers voices. OK, it may make for a temporarily "exciting" sound, but (hey) you play it once and you're bored with it. Why? Simple - it doesn't sound like the human voice and it doesn't sound like a group of musicians playing music. Most of them might as well be rolling up sausages in a butcher shop. A few, very few, recording studios produce real music, played by real musicians, and then a product that sounds like music even on CD - revolting little silver-disk-thingy. Some recording studios can produce a good, or very good presentation on disk of musicians playing music with real instruments. Miracle Studios is one such establishment. It is a well chosen name in today's world so far as I can see - it is a miracle that someone remembers how a recording should sound - like music!! How radical is that!!!! Miracle Studios is small, responsive and not expensive (doesn't relate to low quality, by the way). Michael and Joe are both working musicians. They know how music sounds in the real world, played by people and not by machines. If you want the "same old stuff", they can give you that, but they'd rather not. They use analogue tape, and velocity (condensor) microphones to get the closest approach to the original sound - I think that motto was used somewhere before. Your lyrics and music will be faithfully reproduced to disk ready to stamp the million or two you could sell. I have no commercial connection of any kind with Miracle Studios, but I have listened to a few snippets of their work, including the prize-winning "Esther", and naturally, this was monitored on The Greatest Hi-Fi Product of All Time, The Quad ESL (stacked), so I know what I'm hearing, OK? . I recommend them to you, wherever you are in the world, but especially if you are in Australia. Give them a try for your next album and you will not be disappointed. Enough from me - please have a look at Miracle Studios web site for more details. Gary Jacobson |
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