Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ransom financial corporation Winnipeg free press in India in Rifici subject to Cam 9448660 entertainment Section Morley Walker 6977307 b1 digital revolution inexpensive recording system cuts costs and anxiety january Dan Donahue had been snowed under by work but this was there he was last Jan a Winnipeg pro Ducer in Vancouver trying to put the finishing touches to Valdys new heart at work things were going according to plan until a blizzard virtually unheard of on the coast roared unaccustomed to precipitation that requires the City including the recording studio Donahue had rented simply shut the delay could have been disastrous As expenses climbed and players schedules committed them we had seven or eight Days booked and just had to do said a producer for 15 the roads were Terri their Snow removal budget out there is about and it was lethal to As recently As five years Donahue and Crew would have been out of but thanks to new adat ales is digital audio tape recording machines each one about the size of a and a relative bargain at the project went ahead without a we set up in the engineers Donahue Valdy came in from Sal Spring Island in his four by made runs across the City and brought Guys its most Surpris the finished product Doest betray his improvised Valdy did at least half the record that and youd never Donahue its All part of the digital Revo an information overhaul that Stephen Ostick changing music recording As Well As to and radio As drastically As magnetic tape and transistors once it Means that musicians base ment tapes no longer need to sound like citrate thanks to adat technology Alessis is the company that pioneered makeshift studios can be set up just about recording costs can be Cut by half or and listeners wont know the up to snuff we took zen Bungalow into the rehearsal Hall an old restau and recorded the album where they Felt said Thorn owner of Winnipeg of Yah records we did half the album for probably 20 per cent of the Cost of the rest of the the completed project was up to snuff with what wed done in the major inexpensive digital technology has been a godsend to Small labels such Asoh if in going to break even in Schur Todd Michaels working on new studio my budget has to reflect Sparling with i can make a very Good sounding record for that Bud from a musicians Point of its a cheap zen Bungalow guitarist Al Wolanin its Way easier to use than regular tape and is i hesitate to use it big studios traditionally charge from to per As More musicians discover they can get Topnotch digital recordings on Small conventional studios Are faced being forced to adapt to the threat or face its the Way of the mad Dock studios owner Dave roman i rented my first adat machine last Spring because i thought if in going to stay in id better invest in roman says he has spent about on equipment for his traditional analog 24track Stu Dio since opening it in North Winnipeg in Ive still got two years of pay ments from a 10year Mort Gage left on my two Inch he said of the pricey traditional which uses massive Rolls of twin chide magnetic that where studio owners feel an adat machine is basically a Modi fied to handle eight tracks of by link ing three machines through an electronic time 24 tracks can be acquired for romans old analog unit set him Back three times that whats roman a traditional 45 minute reel of two Inch tape costs about but adapts use any super vhf the kind you can buy at your neighbourhood grocery store for about but theres absolutely no loss of roman you can fall on your face and get a Good sound with adapts if you have a Good Board and Good said Danny win Nipe based producer of the country hearts in equiv the technical Quality of adapts is Superior to Schur recently helped Sun Shine studios owner Ness Michaels design two new All adat studios in a massive Facil Ity on Selkirk we have built this place without it Schur we even have bought the equipment now were in the big High profile players also appreciate the fact they can record at their own Speed with out having to pay expensive Stu Dio i think Well record on Blind Melon guitarist Rogers Stevens said before the groups recent Walker theatre we have two and Well get a couple More and a House in new Sparling were talk ing about a level of Comfort and when youre paying to an the pressure is on to the digital stuff allows for the because its of no the clocks and at six Oclock another sessions coming while debate continues about the relative merits of digital sound and the old analog All agree any recording equip ment is Only As Good As the per son behind the adat is a Good product and is said Engineer Chris who manages Brad Roberts crash test dummies god of Thunder analog studio in but i cant stress enough it boils Down to who using the Jeff Debooy free press with Var sized and at which allows dramatic savings Over an a log system dead or Elvis is 59 let the party begin by Terry Weber is reporter swivel those hips and get to work on the its Elvis birthday he would have been 59 today and theres no shortage of ways to How about an Elvis sized birthday Bash maybe a Little shopping for a commemorative Elvis effigy dont forget to Channel surf your Way through classic Elvis films like Blue Hawaii and and you thought the Holiday season had i think the reason peo ple never gave up on adoring the Guy and playing his music was that he was an absolute says Robert one of the organizers of tonight Elvis birthday Bash at win Nipges venue on the third floor of Mother tuckers restaurant on Don Ald he came along at a time when peo ple really lacked Slade and fellow part planner Stephen Mclntyre maintain they Arent out to offend diehard Elvis fans with the Tongue Incheck but its Clear from the evenings Agenda which kicks off at 8 that there not taking the whole thing All too seriously for a admission celebrants can participate in Elvis lookalike and soundalike theres also a prize for the Best More questionable is the category for the Best last a Hunka Burnin Cash is offered for the Best dramatic recreation of that legendary its All intended in Good spirit but its certainly not a sombre says we Arent going to get the weeping masses that go to the More Reveren minded might want to turn to Hasbro Canada to Mark the limited edition dolls in memory of the the company working with Elvis Presley enter Prises is issuing six limited edition Elvis each Posable figure stands 12 inches tall and retails for about the first three figures teen 68 special and Jailhouse Rock Are being released to commemorate Elvis the fascination with the Man who touched so Many people lives on More than 16 years after his says the company in its press release for the through his music and Elvis legacy reaches new generations of audiences every for a film try Media Mogul Ted Turners Tbs superstition out of which is paying tribute to the King with a string of Elvis movies from the late three films Blue blues and roustabout will air on the network beginning at of the underlying question in All of this is whether or not Elvis is really according to ask me something i dont a Book of fun facts for the serious trivia list compiled by Bill and Beth the matter int even open to under the volumes Graceland Sec the authors meet the controversy head is Elvis really dead asks the chapters first the authors declare authority to make Slade says the venue Viii birthday Bash will include a its always been a spiritual kind of says alluding to Long standing rumours that the venue has its own so were going to have a seance to see if we can get in touch with whats Slades feeling on the matter i saw him a couple weeks says he was Dri ving a the three Elvis dolls commemorate his 59th ;