Consoles & Controllers  Duration: 38 minutes  Featuring: Alan
Parsons, with Jack Jospeh Puig, Patrick Leonard, and Niko Bolas.
Most people’s vision of what a recording studio looks like is a
room primarily occupied by a large console full of knobs,
faders, and flashing lights. Even software that emulates a
‘recording studio’ seems to perpetuate this image.  The reality
is that you can – and people do – make records without putting
your hand on anything more movable than a mouse. ‘Volume’ can be
set as a number, and even changes in volume, pan, or anything
else can be painstakingly input as data and replayed as
automation.  So why would anyone still need to use what in some
ways is a very old-fashioned and definitely cumbersome object
like a recording console?  Consoles & Controllers starts with
Alan re-discovering the EMI desk on which he recorded Dark Side
Of The Moon, which now resides in a vintage gear pre-production
studio in Los Angeles.  One clue as what the value of console
still might be in the moder