Tells about a couple of sets of record horns.
But when, in 2001, he came to record horns for "When I Was Cruel," a guitar-driven return to his youthful, aggressive past, he landed in a different city.
"Sledgehammer" was partially inspired by the music of Otis Redding, and Gabriel sought out Wayne Jackson, who Gabriel had seen on tour with Redding in the 1960s, to record horns for the track.
Wangemann became expert in such strategies as positioning musicians around the recording horn in a way to maximize sound quality.
But given the recording method of the time, with the musicians gathered around a single recording horn, Caruso's voice, front and center, tends to dominate at such moments.
He did his best, ordering the construction of the world's largest brass recording horn, 128 feet long, 5 feet in diameter at the end that received sound, tapering down to 5/8 of an inch at the other.
HAVE you ever wondered what it would be like to hear your favorite Caruso recordings freshened up: say, with the great tenor's voice, exactly as it was captured by an acoustic recording horn in the days before microphones, newly cloaked in the lush timbres of a modern symphony orchestra recorded in digital stereo?
Wilde's own interface with audio technology is historically shrouded: did he or did he not, at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900, recite part of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" into the recording horn of one of Thomas Edison's phonographs?
Beecham began making recordings in 1910, when the acoustical process obliged orchestras to use only principal instruments, placed as close to the recording horn as possible.
King Khan and the Shrines Bite My Tongue Bratty garage-rock that neatly mixes Stax Records' horns with The Standells' riffs.
