Audio Engineer Paul Wolff "The Greatest Audio Podcast Ever"

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2 жыл бұрын

Paul Wolff is a revered figure in the audio, design, and recording industry, having owned API Audio and ToneLux Designs, and worked for Datatronix for several years. With over four decades of experience, he is a prominent figure in the recording world, having consulted on some of the biggest audio design projects. Moreover, his latest venture, Fix Audio Designs, has been a huge success. In 1975, he started designing professional audio equipment, and his contributions have been invaluable. Mr. Wolff's friendship with Sunset Sound owner, Paul Camarata, goes back more than 40 years, and they have collaborated on numerous projects. Notably, Mr. Wolff purchased the famous Bushnell API Recording Console of Studio 1, on which renowned artists such as Van Halen, The Doors, and The Rolling Stones recorded. The console later found its way back to LA with famed producer T-Bone Burnett. Together, the two Pauls have worked on the famed "Tutti" Pre-Amp, which will be back in stock soon on www.sunsetsoundstore.com. If you're interested in the recording world, kick back and listen to these incredible stories.
Paul Wolff: www.fixaudiodesigns.com
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Host: Drew Dempsey: / dfdproductions
Filmed at Sunset Sound Recorders Studio 3
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@gates69 2 жыл бұрын

I never get tired of interviews like this. Guys like Paul are a walking encyclopedia of audio recording history. Their story needs to be recorded for history sake.

@AndrewMasters 9 ай бұрын

This really is one of the best audio podcast episodes I've heard, excellent work.

@jordanmartinez2432 2 жыл бұрын

Soooooooo grateful that these guys realize the importance of getting these nuggets of history out to us audio nerds!!!!! So awesome!!!!👍😊🎸🔥🔥🔥

@barrypenn5584 2 жыл бұрын

This entire series of Sunset Sound interviews is history and quite fascinating. All of them. This episode with Mr's Wolff and Camarata is the best so far. So much inside scoop and history on studio electronics engineering in sound recording. The convo brought out a lot of the give and take in the biz - the music and process drives the engineering. The engineering adapts and drives the recording techniques in return. Evolution. Couldn't help but to get Super geeked out on the conversation. Wish there were big enough words to say thanks for capturing this history, the stories, and putting it out there for all to see and learn from. The Best.

@Bluelagoonstudios 7 ай бұрын

I bought in 2022 a 16ch API 2488 for a lot of money, and restored it pretty much to new state, I was lucky the B550A EQ's were in good shape. This console is my favorite from all, I love a fat and saturated sound. And this console provides this. I spend a long time to get the console back on track. But it was worth the time and money. Now a studio offered me the double of the price that I paid, but this console doesn't go anywhere, but here. Interesting podcast. [edit] it weights a ton, I had once a Allen&Heat GM console, also 16ch, but was a lot of lighter, for the API I removed every part, before shipping it to my workplace [/edit]

@katiec6935 2 жыл бұрын

So Informative!! Thank You!

@markr.devereux3385 2 жыл бұрын

Experts like PAUL are essential to the magic of modern audio recording. What a career and appears to be a really nice gentleman. Kudos. Sunset Sound

@shorerocks 2 жыл бұрын

I am just a guitar player not really into all the tech. But. What guy. And the stories. Legend.

@TheNaturalust Жыл бұрын

I'll tell you a secret Jeff Beck told me.......all the fancy gear , consoles, EQ, mic preamps etc have about 1/10 the effect on the recorded sound as the fingers of the guitar player.

@mcpribs 2 ай бұрын

This is fascinating!!! I love the API sound, so I owe you all. Thank for sharing this info!

@sunsetsoundrecorders 2 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

@MrUltraworld 2 жыл бұрын

The audio quality is so nice, it doesn't bite you, with very little fatigue. I was just listening to a podcast and one person is barely at a whisper and the other is cutting my head off. Very relaxing, thank you.

@The_Absurdistt Ай бұрын

Master history and technical class.

@TheNaturalust Жыл бұрын

Rarely do I find people who speak my language, such a delight. I lived and breathed console design and manufacture in the 90's. Some of the most brilliant audio electronics engineers, programmers and studio gear geeks teamed up to make the first digitally controlled analog large format consoles and funneled all the months pf design components to my team and asked us to build , test and troubleshoot the whole finished product. The most fun part of the whole creative inventing process!. The design team nailed it and we took on Neve and SSL right out of the gate. Eventually Wall street killed the company and the magic and success left when the visionary and founder gave the reins to a Wall Street CEO and the best of us burnt out and left. I have so much respect for Mr. Wolf and he is legendary in my mind. I couldn't have done what we did without what he did first. Thanks for this video. Ive watched in twice and really appreciated every word. I wish it were a weekly discussion,

@walterevans2118 2 жыл бұрын

This is the narrative story of the evolution of the recording process. So many innovations & ideas ...building on the shoulders of giants. Paul is clearly a major participant , contributor & historian to this evolution. Thanks for this.

@houseofmars4319 2 жыл бұрын

What a phenomenal interview, so much information and great stories. All of this needs to be documented, you hung your shingle out at an incredible crossroads in music history.

@thechuckster6838 2 жыл бұрын

This was great! Paul is a real audio engineer. Loved to hear about the API gear I have in my home studio.

@JockeLundgrenTV 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic as always. Thanks!! ☀️

@rodbecker332 2 жыл бұрын

Just awesome! Thank you.

@seanclancy918 2 жыл бұрын

Paul Wolff is an audio legend!!

@hollylewis5302 2 жыл бұрын

Another phenomenal interview Drew! Gosh, I learned so much! Thanks for the history lesson. :)

@walterevans2118 2 жыл бұрын

VHs early albums were just the tip of the iceberg Holly. ....Isn't it amazing how many innovations led up to the modern era.

@hoggiluggi 2 жыл бұрын

@@walterevans2118 Simply amazing! And for Sunset Sound to have the mindfulness to interview all of these folks is just as amazing! ✌❤🎸

@justrightinmaine 2 жыл бұрын

Great interview and Paul is so interesting. 2 hours and 20 minutes never went so fast. I had never heard of him but have learned so much (and now many more things to research). Thanks, Guys!

@ZipSnipe Жыл бұрын

man this by far my favorite interview, I am loving this format. The Pauls were awesome , good stuff !!!!!

@yaanno 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic interview, thanks! Paul seems to be a very knowledgeable and fun person :) So many great stories.

@pascalmerschaudio Жыл бұрын

that was so amazing thank you guys

@ghostexits 11 ай бұрын

This guy ought to be giving classes on the history recording technology. I guess I could find some of this info in books, but it’s fascinating to hear this history weaved into a narrative.

@kurt-foster5925 11 ай бұрын

i love this podcast! after watching it , i have returned to it several times to view different sections. so much great info here! i bet i could watch it 100 times and still get something new from it each time! thanks Paul Wolff. kf

@HoneyWindbutton 2 жыл бұрын

This is an important discussion to be documented. Thanks guys !

@jasoncoetzeeadadjjzjdatune9617 2 жыл бұрын

Wow . I can hear the compression on the air conditioner the breath and the voices and it sounds beautiful. Something about this place. Great podcast gentleman , pioneers of your craft and we appreciate that.

@williamstrasser8854 2 жыл бұрын

It’s just a podcast radio stations sound better imo . It’s great quality sure but most radio stations are on par or better . They excel with music recording

@jasoncoetzeeadadjjzjdatune9617 2 жыл бұрын

@@williamstrasser8854yeah, but you have to listen to djs and nobody needs that noise

@g_and_kikos_homestudio Жыл бұрын

This is so damn interesting. Hearing the evolution FROM THE BEGINNING of all this legendary gear we see and/or use everyday. I'd watch this all day.

@DigitalRackGear 2 жыл бұрын

This is outstanding information and history ... I"m only 32 mins in and this is very exciting!

@alexdawson7851 2 жыл бұрын

Be great to have Ken Hirsch on to talk about Electrodyne.

@revoxed93 2 жыл бұрын

Now I'm hungry for that Thai place, and longing for an old API and a Tesla! This was packed with fun stories. More please.

@evowire 2 жыл бұрын

I was a process engineer for an electronics company when RoHS became a thing. Sn whiskers/ dendritic growth, were a huge problem. SnAg solder had a much hotter melting point, had much less plastic range and is actually worse for the environment. We then moved to SnAgCu, which had a little lower melting point. Silver is more harmful, in less concentration than lead. All that was needed to avoid that mess was adequate ways to recycle electronics produced with SnPb solder. We didn't have to move away from SnPb.

@SnoDawg 4 ай бұрын

The guy in the center eyes are glazing over by 48:11 :-)

@eatingplaydoh 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this

@terrytees Жыл бұрын

Great podcast, fascinating, informative and a real eduction

@tomcook5813 2 жыл бұрын

This is great

@MrUltraworld 2 жыл бұрын

What a great podcast!

@tootory9506 2 жыл бұрын

Nerd alert: I hope you guys have a few of your classic mics set up around the room to capture this conversation in "room tone" as well. 😃 I really think it would be cool to hear the room every now and then while you guys are in there. I mean I have the plug-in, so I'm good there hahaa could do my own re- mix 🤓jk Totally love these "sit downs" I can listen to this and watch these forever🥳 Thank You All!

@glenndonald7557 Жыл бұрын

Would love to hear the Yes Big Generator story! I have heard or read it was a very long drawn out process, maybe Trevor Rabin would be interview? 😊

@alexdawson7851 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent.

@corystevenponzo7007 2 жыл бұрын

These guys are the real stars of music

@reaganbrowne6373 2 жыл бұрын

I lived in LA for years and always wondered what that Crossroads building was.

@drewfdempsey 2 жыл бұрын

We Came. We Talked. We Left Legend's!

@GeoTactics 11 ай бұрын

Came for the recording talk learned a crap load about the telephone company business. :)

@TheNaturalust Жыл бұрын

The City of LA had a couple relatively small compliance companies on their approved labeling list! One was in Burbank, called Electro Energy corp,. I was a senior engineer there and always did the pro audio manufacturers a great deal.You didn;t need ULand we made it easy to get power supplies and audio gear approved! Sorry you were led into compliance nightmares.

@suitandtieguy 2 жыл бұрын

I manufacture analogue synthesisers and even though the recording product market is wildly different, this interview is absolutely fascinating and entertaining. Thank all of you so much.

@atta1798 9 ай бұрын

Took a long time for engineering to develop the latest ..... nowadays

@TheDesertRat31 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I just did a (very) quick read of litz wire. Looks like the primary use was to reduce skin effect in xformer winding used at RF levels. I have a couple tube Amp projects on my bench and I'm studying to upgrade my amateur radio license. Cool background info that may never be useful, but I'll sound so smart... lol. Amazing stories about designing the pre amps and the eq's and custom building recording consoles. I'll have to ask my brother what kind of board he recently recorded on... he might still be doing sessions...

@albeckwall 2 жыл бұрын

This is gold!

@RiotHomeRecording 2 жыл бұрын

29:44, Jensen transformer by Rickenbacker! I think he meant Reichenbach. Mr Ed Reichenbach. I mix up and get names wrong all the time exactly like that. Gets it’s close enough… Sunset is my favorite studio and their consoles are my favorite as well.

@sunsetsoundrecorders 2 жыл бұрын

❤️🔥🙏🎶🤘

@Noname13773 10 ай бұрын

Charles H Crawford was the name of the mobster. "City Hall Gang.'"

@timcummiskey1178 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool! Thank you. Please get Ted Templeman on the program.

@TheNaturalust Жыл бұрын

The 2nd gen Euphonix consoles kicked all their asses, functionality with killer sound!

@robb4340 9 ай бұрын

The Greatest History Lesson Ever !

@dannyho6786 2 жыл бұрын

Facsinating shyt man !!!

@LesonDeson 2 жыл бұрын

LegendS

@jaycareaga9929 Жыл бұрын

Charles Crawford was the gangster. He ran what was known as “The City Hall Gang.”

@timcorner2821 Жыл бұрын

Don't worry Paul....you won't get sued for the Glenn Miller comment, as they showed that in the Glen Miller movie with Jimmy Stewart in the 1950's...lol

@SUPAROCKINDJSMASH 2 жыл бұрын

#SUNSETSOUNDS

@reaganbrowne6373 2 жыл бұрын

Who is the Jimmy that Paul refers to at the end of the interview?

@kennethgarrett9655 Жыл бұрын

Jimmy who is Nashville?

@dannyho6786 Жыл бұрын

Hey, we do stuff 4 dem ! Whats da problem eh ?

@zmix 2 жыл бұрын

1:29:05 Paisley Park Studio B was *not* a replica of Sunset Sound studio 3, in fact both Studio A and Studio B have identical control rooms, which are based on Electric Lady Studio B, but they are about 30% larger than it.

@sunsetsoundrecorders 2 жыл бұрын

That’s wrong

@sunsetsoundrecorders 2 жыл бұрын

Literally David Z and Peggy and Frank who designed the room all said so. Prince worked here 10 years, not electric lady

@zmix 2 жыл бұрын

@@sunsetsoundrecorders, apart from the DeMedio Paisley has nothing in common with Sunset Sound, unless you guys also had Westlake 5 ways with dual 18s? I worked at Paisley for years, starting before it was finished in 1987. A & B are identical rooms and based on Electric Lady's B control room. Have a look at some photos of EL B and compare then to Paisley A&B rooms.

@bigbaby9189 2 жыл бұрын

Nope it’s sunset. Where does it say otherwise?

@ChromaticHarp 2 жыл бұрын

Marcel Proust is a Yenta!

@GeoTactics 11 ай бұрын

Am I the only that finds it freaky that they barely look at the dude in the middle.

@nickm.9474 Жыл бұрын

Friends for over 40 years and the dude acts like he didn’t know all the history of his old office area. 😄

@ronanzann4851 Жыл бұрын

THE DUDE !......THE DUDE !........what the hell are you talking about ?

@tomcook5813 2 жыл бұрын

Is Bob heil still a name in the industry?

@ChromaticHarp 2 жыл бұрын

I saw Bob at NAMM a few years ago, he was displaying his mucropjones.

@huskvnj Жыл бұрын

"The Greatest Audio Podcast Ever" Gotta agree! I wasn't expecting such great stories, I saw Sir George Martin doing a lecture on Audio recording years ago, this is just as good as that, if not better. Great stuff!