Tony Andrews - Keeping the Signal Path Pure

Keeping the signal path as clean as possible is crucial to success as a sound engineer
If you aren’t using something that’s in the signal chain, bypass it. Keeping the signal path as clean as possible will always sound better.
Hearing is subjective, and we can be easily influenced by the claims of modern technology that we are hearing something that perhaps we aren’t, and using our eyes instead of our ears when working with audio, especially with screen-based technology, can easily skew our perceptions. Tony Andrews, John Newsham and Roger Lindsay discuss why seeking practical solutions to practical problems (e.g.. choosing the right mic, getting it into the right position) should be your first port of call before seeking the technological solutions provided by today’s plethora of digital gear.
Trust your ears! They are still, and always will be, your best tool.
Filmed at PLASA Focus, Leeds, 2014.
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[@audioisgood]

Whoa! This is some of the best engineering advice I've heard in ages. I want to watch the rest of this.

[@Soulsoundschool]

audioisgood Unfortunately it was very difficult to capture the rest of the discussion on video - it was a sometimes-heated debate involving an audience of close on 200 people, so there was no way to practically pass a mic around to capture all the comments. Real pity I know... But there is another section here: ua-cam.com/video/Zske4-3j454/v-deo.html

[@12copablo]

Love how Tony Andrews speak!

[@redform]

His name is Paul Michael Stavrou and the book is called
"Mixing With Your Mind". Cheers.

[@lassiegotshot]

He's name is Michael Paul Stavrou

[@redform]

@@lassiegotshot Cheers!

[@MrDaveFerrier]

so true, listen to anything engineered and recorded by Al Schmitt. You can hear exactly what this man is saying

[@EvolveGaming98]

I hear that

[@Magnum-Farce]

What "micro timing" things?
You would need some reference to know something isn't in the temporal place it needs to be, right?
Then you're talking about phase level changes. fractions of fractions of dBs.

[@patrickgerona1]

I blame the SPX 90....started it all off....Ha.

[@lizichell2]

4:49 ain't that the truth