

Our new (old) microphone
I bought a Neumann UM57, mainly because I can’t afford to splash 10k on a U47. An engineer friend suggested I find a UM57 since they have the same M7 capsule as in the U47. But since they were made in Neumann’s East German Gefell plant, some of the internal components weren’t up to the standards of the Berlin Neuman plant. Purchased from Larking.com it’s in beautiful condition for a mic of its age - around sixty years old. I’ve recorded two different vocalists and a bunch of


Our new (old) microphone
I bought a Neumann UM57, mainly because I can’t afford to splash 10k on a U47. An engineer friend suggested I find a UM57 since they have the same M7 capsule as in the U47. But since they were made in Neumann’s East German Gefell plant, some of the internal components weren’t up to the standards of the Berlin Neuman plant. Purchased from Larking.com it’s in beautiful condition for a mic of its age - around sixty years old. I’ve recorded two different vocalists and a bunch of


Post production on Ken Campbell stage recordings
Ken Campbell was "the door through which many hundreds of kindred souls entered a madder, braver, brighter, funnier and more complex universe" according to the director of the Liverpool Playhouse theatre. Being just a nipper, I remember him mainly as Alf Garnett's neighbour and the irritating Roger, a guest in Fawlty Towers. But Ken Campbell real work was in the staging many one man shows of mind bending vision from the mid 70s until his death in 2008. Those shows were hapha