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New Sound on Sound article on the recording and mixing of R40 Live

Fri, Jan 1, 2016@12:39PM | comments

UPDATE - 1/1@1:36PM: John at Cygnus-X1.net has transcribed the full article here.

A new article profiling the recording and mixing of Rush's R40 Live concert video appears in the January, 2016 issue of Sound on Sound magazine. The article includes interviews with R40 Live producer David Bottrill, Rush front-of-house engineer Brad Madix, and others. A short preview of the article is available at the Sound on Sound website here:

... With the [R40 Live] tour marking such a significant milestone, Rush chose to record their Toronto homecoming shows for the R40 Live DVD and album, and had no hesitation when it came to choosing a producer for the job. "After having worked with Rush on a few previous projects, we'd built a great working relationship," David Bottrill tells me from his mixing studio, where he also mixed the R40 show. ... "Being a teen in the '70 in Canada, I was absolutely a Rush fan," David told me during the tracking the R40 shows; and prior to R40, he had already been responsible for a remix of the band's Vapor Trails album. ...

The entire article is available to subscribers and also available for purchase as a pdf file. Thanks to Eric at Power Windows for the heads up.

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