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The July 2006 issue of Sound On
Sound, the UK's music recording magazine, is now out and features a
great, six page interview with engineer Andy Jackson.
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| Sound On Sound, July 2006 (cover inset) |
Andy has worked with Pink Floyd
since The Wall album, and has also engineered various solo albums from
Roger Waters and David Gilmour.
Indeed, his most recent work has been
on David's On An Island, which is the focus of the article and
interview.
Accompanied by some great
pictures from the rehearsals and recording sessions, Andy talks in
detail about the equipment set-up, and the recording process, at the
three main locations used for the album: David's home studio, Abbey
Road Studios in London, and at Astoria, David's houseboat studio on the
Thames.
In a seperate interview, Phil
Manzanera talks about producing the album, and about how he got David's
early rough material knocked into workable shape.
Whilst the rest of the magazine
contains exhaustive detail on the minutae of recording techniques and
equipment, the interviews are fascinating reading and provide much food
for thought on the work that goes on in the background, and which
receives little recognition and praise, but without which, albums would
sound a lot different!
The magazine is available from
today in UK stores, and will be available shortly worldwide in selected
outlets as an import. For more details of the magazine, visit soundonsound.com.
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