The lecture with Ken was very interesting, he ran through a lot of aspects of his job and employability factors. Ken is a classical music producer and owner of BMP: The Sound Recording Company, based in Lincoln at ‘Sparkhouse Studios’ on the Universities campus. A lot of travel is involved with job, so one day he will be in London and the next a completely different place! Also a few times a year he goes over to America to work in a studio. Ken detailed the kind of differenced between his recording and popular music recording. Most of his kit consists of AKG-c414’s and other bits of kit which are set up to get more of a room sound, rather than an up-close instrument sound. However, if there are certain parts he wants to highlight in the music he would use spot mic’s on those instruments. This is the main difference between popular and classical music recording.
In the future I could apply these methods to my work, so this lecture has been extremely useful.