European Beer Through a Leaky Straw
Posted on | August 24, 2008 |
I wrote a post a few days back about cables, and the concept hit me again recently when I saw an online ad for a mastering facility. It shows a mondo compressor with more knobs than you can count, and in the corner of the picture you see it’s run through a patchbay with a low-end cable. I thought, “that’s like drinking european beer through a leaky straw!”
This post, or course, will sound like advertorial rhetoric. But it’s based in truth that can be applied to any mastering facility…not just ZenMastering because it has a great infrastructure. The bottom line is that, in many cases what you don’t see is as important (or more so) as what you do see.
If you see a recording or mastering facility with great equipment, the cables and patchbay connecting that equipment are just as important as the gear itself. If you see great speakers, how the room is treated and the position of the speakers (and how they integrate with the subwoofer) is just as important to the sound as the speakers themselves.
But these are things you don’t often see in ads…or even when you walk into a studio. In fact, they’re things you may never think about. But they’re like the foundation of any audio facility. Remember, every great piece of equipment is only as good as the things connecting them.
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