TV2 was ok, there was some height...heavy black velour drapes controlled the walls but peeling them back helped.
TV13 was pretty dark.
I produced a lot of live recording in TV17 - one 1997 Erykah Badu segment recorded simultaneously to ProTools and mixed in AS1 by Hesh Yarmark (4 seasons, Peter Paul and Mary) on a Neve VR/Studer 827 to digital VTR - sounded fabulous. The live board mix was a disaster, it just wasn't their thing.

Please pardon the misspellings and occassional insane word substitution I'm on an iPhone

> On Sep 18, 2014, at 3:12 PM, "Richard L. Hess" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-09-18 1:48 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
>> One more point about recording booths. I think some of what we like
>> about the more primatively-recorded blues, hillbilly and other "folk"
>> musics recorded in the 30s and 40s is a result of the highly damped
>> small recording spaces often used. I've read accounts of Paramount
>> artists talking about a small studio so blanketed and damped that they
>> could barely hear themselves or their instrument.
>
> When I was at ABC-TV in the late 1970s, the ABC morning show invited the choir of men and boys from St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue to perform a short segment. I had been recording the choir for a while and became good friends with the late Dr. Gerre Hancock, the director.
>
> When Gerre returned from the gig (which I had no involvement in) the next time he saw me, he asked "Richard, why do you make these studios sound like pillow factories?"
>
> He was most displeased with the sound to no one's surprise. I think this took place in TV-2 which was half of what used to be a horseback riding arena and went between 66th and 67th Streets, but it might have been TV-13 in the then new Seven Lincoln Square building--a project I did work on, but not for acoustics--that was 8,000 square feet (let's say 240,000 cubic feet and highly padded.
>
> Dr. Hancock was used to conducing in a stone church of about 2,200,000 cubic feet according to my friend David L. Klepper's 1995-07/08 JAES article.
>
> Just to point out the other extreme of the continuum of acoustical space influence.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
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