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Untidy Desk: Tim Freedman
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The Untidy Desk series gives you a chance to see and hear some of the world's top artists in the informal setting of the ABC Dig Music office. You can find the whole series here.
Thanks to Bob Boilen and Co at NPR in the States for inspiring our efforts...make sure you check out their Tiny Desk series.
Artist Biography
Timothy "Tim" James Freedman (25 November 1964) is the mainstay lead singer and keyboardist of the Australian band The Whitlams formed in 1993. The song "No Aphrodisiac", co-written by Freedman, was their break-through hit in 1997; their top four ARIA albums are Love This City (1999), Torch the Moon (2002), Little Cloud (2006) and compilation, Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You: Best of the...
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Comments
love it!
Gr8 new tunes by Mr Freedman. How are these things recorded at the ABC? I don't see a microphone anywhere. It's not like Countdown and they're lip-synching? Either that or you have invisible mikes!
I wondered how they recorded it myself. Then I saw a microphone in the Dan Sultan and Alex Gow instalment. It's a (very expensive) Neumann MS stereo shotgun mike. The American "Tiny Desk" series is recorded with a Sennheiser MS shotgun. Of course the ABC had to go one better (or at least more expensive!).
Of course a great mike has to be used well. And in this setup, that's mostly about putting it in exactly the right place!
Great sound.
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