the engineer

Simon Eadon started at Decca in 1970 straight from school. The recording industry is not a profession normally associated with ex-pupils of Harrow School! However, a three-year apprenticeship involved precisely duplicating Master Tapes from which Decca’s overseas licencees would cut their own LPs and press them locally. In this period the art of analogue (razor blade) tape editing, cassette mastering and LP mastering were also perfected. After a short period as tape-operator, his first session on the mixer was in July 1975 at Kingsway Hall recording a Ligeti LP. Since then he has gained a reputation in all fields of classical music recording but is especially renowned for his work with Choral and Organ repertoire. Many happy recordings have been made with the Choir of King’s College Cambridge (where both his sons were choristers). The Beethoven Symphony cycle with the Tonhalle Orchestra and David Zinman for Arte Nova is now regarded as a bench-mark recording both musically and technically with sales of over 1 million copies. The Richard Strauss cycle for Arte Nova has also received critical acclaim. These recordings may be on a budget label, but no-holds barred full price criteria are applied to these as all Abbas recordings. Simon has been the recipient of most of the industry’s awards and been involved with numerous Grammy winning projects.

the old and the new, l’ancien et le nouveau was recorded on Pyramix using Schoeps microphones and monitored on B & W Loudspeakers and Sennheiser Headphones.

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