John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

Wow - I found an MP3 of a recording I engineered in 1969!! It's called
.The Real Thing. The artist is Russell Morris - the writer - John Young - the Producer - Molly Meldrum.

It was recorded on a Scully 1" 8 track recorder years before digital effects etc. My only reverb was a EMT140 plate. The phasing effect is tape phasing using two Ampex AG440s, one of them varispeeded with a huge 300watt power amp driving 240 volts with variable frequency to the AG440 capstan motor. You record/playback onto each machine and join them back together. As you vari the speed of one of the recorders the effect starts. It was released in mono like everything else in Aussieland at the time.

It was the first 6min single ever released in OZ and shot to No1 and is now an aussie classic and constantly used to depict the 60s and the psychodelic hippy trippy thingy.

cheers
john

That's wild, John! Very Cool..................

Reminds me a lot of the very early Genesis stuff (the Jonathan King stuff) - it even has that same sound....

Could there BE any more reverb on that vocal!!!!

I'm ever so thankful for file sharing.... I finally dug up a copy of The Pretty Thing's "S.F. Sorrow is Born." something my audio prof turned me on to about 12 years ago.

Now if I can only find a copy of that Lord Stutch record he did with Jeff Beck, Noel Redding, and John Bonham!


Screw the RIAA. If the record companies can't stock the stores with anything other than stuff aimed at 12 year old girls, I ain't buyin' it.

I was actually about to post about this. Found an interesting article the other day linking you to Molly Meldrum and apparently spend some time hanging out together in the sixties in a studio you engineered for owned by Bill ARMSTRONG.

You're practically royalty in Oz Music history

well I did record a few aussie classics

http://www.johnlsayers.com/Pages/Track_Record.htm

Billy Thorpe...damn JOHN!!!!! Children of the Sun was such a hug hit in the Americas. It is still one of my favorites from Billy. I know, you didn't work on that one, but you worked with him...wow.

Rick Spingfield [Springfield]: Yep, know that guy too. I pissed a fella off [nah X, not you...] because I wouldn't stop singing that phrase "I wish that I had Jesse's girl...", and he was insecure about his relationship, and we were drinking shinny and eating bar-b-qued bear meat at his place in Banner Elk North Carolina.

Good times


Wow, you really are famous!