Fine Recording Inc Pioneers in High Fidelity Studio Recording UPDATED 4. C. Robert Fine and Wilma Cozart Fine c. Source T. FineToday at Preservation Sound dot com we are pleased to present a special guest T. Fine, son of high fidelity recording pioneers C. R Fine and W. C. Fine. The elder Fines were active studio ownersengineers in the early days of stereophonic LP recording and their efforts brought the world one of the most successful series of LPs ever manufactured Mercury Records Living Presence series click here for a contemporary reissue of much of this material. The younger Mr. Fine presents a history of Fine Recording, INC., the studios, and the equipment that was used he has also generously provided PS Dot Com with some previously unavailable images of the operation. Well begin with a five page article from Popular Science 1. Fine Recording, INC. Click here to read the original article at Popular Science Dot Comimage source Popular Science, August 1. T. Fine Fine Recording Inc. FRI was a production complex that eventually encompassed four studios, extensive disk mastering operations, and Walter Sears Moog laboratory. FRI was located in the Great Northern Hotel on 5. Street in Manhattan. The Great Northern Hotel, Home of FRI., as it appeared in the 1. SOURCE T. FineThe building was torn down in the 8. Parker Meridian Hotel is on the site now. XNXX delivers free sex movies and fast free porn videos tube porn. Now 10 million sex vids available for free Featuring hot pussy, sexy girls in xxx rated porn clips. Find every comedian on Comedy Central StandUp, featuring the latest most popular funny standup videos. Was ist maxdome Deutschlands grte OnlineVideothek. Auf SmartTV, Tablet, PC, Laptop, Smartphones. Keine Werbung. Viele Videos in HD, Originalversion Dolby 5. Mic Listen to the podcast Whartons Eric Bradlow discusses his research on binge consumption of online learning content. The phrase Netflix and chill may apply. Watch Otis Online Mic' title='Watch Otis Online Mic' />Florida Atlantic head football coach Lane Kiffin, the most frequently dunkedon coach in recent college football history, has willingly shared two more stories about. The studio began operation in 1. Ballroom was transformed into a recording space. Above The ballroom of the Great Northern Hotel c. P3-CXhO6A/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Watch Otis Online Mic' title='Watch Otis Online Mic' />Fine Recording Studio A. The Tiffany glass ceiling remained throughout. SOURCE T. FineIn the summer of 1. Ballroom Studio A, and continued almost daily until 1. Studio B, which was located in what had been the ballrooms service kitchen, was used for small group sessions, voice over recording, transcription services and other purposes not requiring a large recording room. Fine Recording, INC rate card c. In todays currency multiply by 1. SOURCE T. FineA growing sound for film business required a film specialized space, and Studio C was built in 1. Dimitri Mitropoulos had lived. A few years later, the adjoining suite became available, and Studio D was built as a second sound for picture studio. Studio C and D shared a film machine room and both were equipped for 3. The disk mastering suite, also on the penthouse level, had stereo and mono mastering rooms. Watch Chosen Putlocker#'>Watch Chosen Putlocker#. In the late 6. 0s, Walter Sear had a studioMoog synthesizer production lab on the 1. Sear was Walter Moogs NYC regional representative and he provided Moog effects exclusively to Fine Recording clients. After the success of Walter later Wendy Carloss Moog album, Switched On Bach Columbia, other artists quickly jumped on the Moog bandwagon. Watch Elevator Streaming'>Watch Elevator Streaming. Among them were Dick Hyman and Richard Hayman, who recorded several Moog centric albums for Command. Ed. note click here for an excellent  Moog cut from Hyman. Walter Sear did the Moog programming and some of the engineering on those albums, and also recorded his own Moog album for Command, The Copper Plated Integrated Circuit. From the early 1. Duplicating was originally set up for quarter track, full track and 2 track reels, but Fine Recording was also one of the first east coast facilities to duplicate 4 track Muntz cartridges, 8 track Lear cartridges and the Philips Compact Cassette. The studio ceased operation and was sold to Reeves Cinetel in 1. As for equipment Studio A started out with a Gates Dualux mixing console, which was modified heavily over the years. By 1. 96. 0, a center channel buss had been built, and facilities for echo send and return were present from the get go. Watch The Dream Factory HDQ. The version pictured in the Pop. Sci article see above ed. Above the 1. 96. Gates Dualux console, a slighter later version than installed at FRI. The Dualux at FRI used 5. EF8. 6.   Click here to DL schematics for the Gates 5. Gates M5. 21. 5preamp. Click here to download data on the Gates Dualux GatesDualux1. Fine Recording did not use the Gates Consoles line amps. Instead the console outputs went through Altec 3. C Limiter Amplifiers, which were set to a fixed gain click here to DL the Altec 3. C schematic Altec 3. C. If you wanted a clean, linear signal IE., no compression, you just used the console channels conservatively. If you drove the channels beyond a certain level, youd hit the threshold of the limitercompressor. This is how the Command Sound was achieved, characterized by  bright up front horns and crunched drum set, but retaining dynamics and punch in the percussion. Command was a prominent record label in the 1. For an example of the typical Command sound, click hereRegarding the session depicted in the Popular Science article it is of special interest because the master medium was 3. The article covers the process from session to mastering to pressing plant. The record in question was one of Enoch Lights early releases on his Project 3 label Light started that label after he left Command Records in 1. Popular Science 86. In 1. 96. 9, Studio A was rebuilt. The new Audio Designs Manufacturing ADM console installed was, at the time, among the largest desks outside of Hollywood. Above The Fine ADM Console. SOURCE T. FineIt featured early assign automation featuring a patented system. Studio A was originally mono and 2 track. It later evolved to mono and 3 track, and the 1. Studio B started out with an RCA console from the former Fine Sound studio on 5th Avenue. This desk had been rebuilt for 3 channel in the mid 5. In 1. 96. 7, Studio B was rebuilt for 8 track, with a new ADM mixing desk. In those days, engineers like to monitor all the tape tracks, but using 8 Altec 6. Fine Recording contacted JBL and the famous JBL model 4. Century L 1. 00 was born. JBL FRI connection. Studio B later evolved to a 1. Scully, and then 1. Studio C, the first film mixing room, had a 1. Western ElectricMGM all passive console, also originally installed at Fine Sound on 5th Avenue. The console took line level from the machine room and its output was down to about mic level, so Altec amplifiercompressors were used to get back the gain and control peak modulation. Hundreds of films, TV commercials, and special productions were mixed on this console over the years. It later lived at Sear Sound and is now owned by the Museum of Sound Recording group. Video on Demand. Deutschlands grte Online Videothek. Auf Smart TV, Tablet, PC, Laptop, Smartphones.