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Ch. 13 EQ Posted on 2014-11-13 by Ben Foster

Last week at the studio, I sat in on one session with artist/songwriter David Nicholson.  I haven't seen him at the studio since my 1st week here at Studio 713!  He's a really cool guy and has some very catchy songs. We just tracked acoustic guitar using a spaced-pair of Neumann KM1842s and then tracked vocals on the Manley Gold routed through the Chandler pre amp.  I also learned some more mixing board quick tricks from John during all of the tracking. 

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