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March 2004 - Mix Article on E.S.E. by RICK CLARK - "The dusk outside the Marin County, Calif., studio The Site was magical, with deep reds, oranges and grays mixed with clouds, mist from billowing coastal overcast drifting in and redwood trees towering outside the tracking room windows. Inside, Glen Moore, of the legendary acoustic fusion band Oregon, was improvising his own magic on his 300-year-old Klotz string bass. Its rich tonality filled the room, while an impressive complement of precisely placed microphones captured his performance. When I walked into the control room, it sounded like Moore was in the middle of the Neve console, and when I walked around the room, the bassist's position hadn't changed. Standing outside the array of Jean-Marie Reynaud speakers were producers/engineers Cookie Marenco and Jean-Claude Reynaud. After listening for a few minutes, Marenco exclaimed, "No bad seats!" She was right. What I listened to were the fruits of almost two years of work, in which Marenco and Reynaud pursued a surround production approach that would bring a sound to live performance-oriented recordings that is intimate and expansive. They call this trademarked technique ESE, or Extended Sound Environment. Read More...
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