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excerpts from article: "MARDIN RECORDS DIVAS DUETS"
Pro Sound News, Februrary 1999
...Mardin and engineer Michael O'Reilly recorded the duet, "Love Is All That Matters," at
Right Track Recording in New York,
in Studio A, which houses a 96-input Neve VX
console. They also used Studio B's Neve Capricorn digital console. "We had mixed
one of the songs for her album on the Capricorn," Mardin explains, "so the recall
was very easy. Miss Ross' vocals were also done at Carriage House, near Greenwich,
CT." Mardin selected Neumann U67 and U87 microphones. "I did the vocals separately,"
he recalls, "and then they sang again, and they filmed them. It was really magical."
Mardin utilized a Sony 3348 digital multitrack tape machine....
...But working with the technology of the 1990s is also exhilarating, he points out.
"The Capricorn was such a godsend," he says, "working with Barbara Streisand last year.
She was in Malibu, and
I was working with Frank Filipetti. He was mixing. We would
EDnet the mix to her, and she was in her living room at the ocean, saying, 'Can I have
a bit of strings here?', etc. The following day, we'd speak to her about another song,
and she'd say, 'By the way, on yesterday's song, can we do this?' No problem, recall in
two minutes. We did five songs in seven days with her. She was receiving mixes from
other producers in Los Angeles, but she didn't have to go to all these studios...."
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