Daniel Lanois - bringing musicality to your recordings

Daniel Lanois shares his approach to recording and mixing with Paul Clark including a few of the reasons why RADAR is his recording gear of choice.

[@undergroundjohnny]

RADAR - It's fast , it's an old friend and it ain't going anywhere. Amen. My exact experience!

[@33AndAThirdRPM]

Could not agree more with Mr.Lanois. A year ago I switched over to the iZ Technology RADAR recording platform and I absolutely love it! I had been working with analog tape, Pro Tools and had 3 Tascam DA78-HR recorders. I also find that the RADAR is very similar to working with an analog recorder and in my opinion is the closet sounding to analog tape. Of course I still have my 24 track analog machine which will probably just be held on to for mixing from Pro Tools to tape as well as hitting the stereo mix to tape for client with a low budget/demo project. The RADAR in my opinion offers the best of both worlds and sounds absolutely fantastic! Keep up the industry leading ingenuity iZ Technology.

[@moranpro]

Still a big fan and user dating back to the Otari-branded RADAR II to my current RADAR Studio, which ditches the BEOS and older SCSI drives in favor of a more universal OS (Windows), which allows the installation of any Windows-compatible DAW alongside RADAR's software, and High Capacity SS Drives for speed and portability. My first experience with RADAR was in about 2003 or so during a series of improvisational jazz recording sessions. We started on 2" tape which, of course, sounded great. The dynamics varied greatly, so we recorded at 30 ips. Some of the improvs were quite long and I lived in fear of running out of tape in the middle of one (I did not, fortunately) so, for the next session, I decided to go to the studio's RADAR II, which recorded at 24 bit, 48KHz max sample rate. It was such a close second to tape to our ears that I expressed my interest in purchasing the unit - and did a year later, should they ever retire the unit. I have not heard any converters that sound better to my ears. RADAR is not a DAW - no virtual console and no plug ins. it is essentially just like recording to tape, except the capture media is a SSD and editing is non-destructive. Although I also have Pro Tools 12 installed for visiting engineers, I prefer to track in RADAR mode and use physical outboard but, as 33 1/3 RPM remarked, RADAR offer the best of all worlds: great sounding converters, a user-friendly interface for us old, tape veterans, easy editing & safety backups, and the ability to run most DAWs if more extensive track counts, editing power and virtual outboard plugins are desired.

[@jackduxbury1632]

The 🐐

[@Radarrecording]

Dan is a living legend. Check out his latest interview with Rick Beato: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKmzap6Br8d2fKM

[@chilidogrecords9943]

I've been making great-sounding recordings with RADAR since I sold my 2" in 2001. I also have 24 channels of Apollo/PT, but RADAR sounds way better.

[@jackfalco5351]

what is radar?

[@Radarrecording]

RADAR is the original 24-track digital recorder that replaced many 2-inch tape machines in professional recording studios around the world. Because of this, sound quality and traditional workflow (arm tracks, record, play, mark locate, etc.) were of the utmost importance. The latest model (RADAR Studio) is a hybrid recording system. You can track and mix in RADAR Mode (like Daniel Lanois) through a high-end console (Neve, SSL, Audient, Sphere, Fix Audio Designs, Trident, etc.) - OR - Record through outboard pre-amps (Chandler, Spectra Sonics, SPL, Manley, etc.) and mix via a summing box - OR - You can boot it in DAW Mode to record and mix in the box (running PC versions of software like Pro Tools + Plugins).

[@jazminnelson8507]

Wow , thanks for taking the time to explain this .

[@boutiqueempire]

Whose decision was it to shoot this entirely out of focus?

[@Radarrecording]

It has a filter applied to it. Kind of like a distortion pedal you'd put on a guitar.

[@boutiqueempire]

@@Radarrecording Haha!

[@philipgardiner2003]

@vicsteffens @horizonmusicgroup