The Christopher Parkening Method Books
Another milestone for the Amusement Park Studio: I was hired to record all the classical guitar pieces for the Christopher Parkening Method Books, Vol.1 & 2 (Hal Leonard Publishing). David Brandon performed all the pieces and I captured them in Pro Tools.
Chris and David were so pleased with the sound I captured on David’s “Legacy” CD, that they asked me to do the project. I used a stereo matched pair of Schoeps MK4s into an API A2D directly into Pro Tools at 24/96. I mixed it using a few plugins – very subtle eq and compression mainly to handle a peak in David’s Ramirez guitar that centers around A 440 and its related harmonics (his guitar is really prominent in A) along with a couple instances of Altiverb, then summed it out through my Amek console into a TLA semi-parametric tube EQ. We then went back into the A2D analog-to-digital converter into a Masterlink at 24/96. The first CD has a total of 99 tracks!
David felt so strongly about my work that he had it put in the contract that my name had to be printed in every book and on every CD as the recording engineer. Kinda cool.
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- The Amusement Park Studio recorded all the audio for the Christopher Parkening Method Books.
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- Recorded by Scott Faris
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- The title page of the Parkening Books
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Comments
Congratulations Scott, that’s really cool!
Posted by: Shane | May 24th, 2009 17:01
These books have been, and continue to be such a huge part of my studies- as I’m sure is the case for you too…It’s such cool news to hear you got your hands involved- Congrats!
Posted by: Keenan | July 7th, 2009 21:55