True Stories.
A few years ago I was in a project that had culled sufficient material to enter the studio. The engineer is top notch and works with Richard Thompson, Marc Cohn, Rosanne Cash to name a few. The first day was mostly for setting up the drums, the mics for them, tweaking, etc. The current monitor configuration was a pair of current run KRKs. During mic placement playback checks I asked Tom how he like the KRKs, "They're okay, I'm renting them, the lease is up next week and I'm thinking there's a better alternative out there. You got any suggestions?" I told him about the Paradigm Studio 20 v1, I knew the rep and could score a pair on comp pricing, if he didn't like them I would keep them. We did the deal and had the Paradigms in house for start of following week's sessions. When we entered the mix phase the process was; run the mix down and commit to cassette. We'd go outside and pop the tape into the crappy deck in the bass player's Chevy Astro. On the second day of mixing Matt, the bass player commented, "The Paradigms are very accurate. What we're hearing up there, we're hearing down here." On the last day Tom the engineer/producer said, "I'm keeping the Paradigms Jonny. I just can't go back."
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Ailing at Paradigm Electronics. One of his customers is the mobile recording engineer for The Rolling Stones. This guy trusts his Studio 20s so much he ships them to wherever he is. On a remote mixing session with Keith Richards the shipper routed the Paradigms incorrectly so there was a 2 day delay. During the 2 days they were using the studio's Yamaha NS-10s and Keith seemed okay with that. When the Studio 20s finally arrived they were in the middle of a mix. Tape was stopped, and the Studio 20s hooked up in parallel to the NS-10s, and they resumed mixing. When the NS-10s were switched on, Keith took a drag of his cigarette, got up from his chair, ripped each NS-10 from it's perch and threw them against the wall!
Anyone else have stories about these remarkable speakers?
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