Recordings

Over the years Ian has been involved in sound recordings including everything from formal talks to charitable groups to live musical concerts and has played/sung on commercial releases and on national TV (ITV/C4) and radio (BBC Radio 4 and Radio France) as a musician as well as touring Europe.

He specialises in recording choral/chamber groups using coindicent (XY cardiods) and near-coincident (ORTF) techniques direct to digital solid state or CD. He also uses Soundman OKM II binaural mics for FX and stereo wildtrack: which have been used by the BBC. He undertook a two year music technology course in his youth and plays piano and keyboards.

Please note Ian currently is not connected to ISDN, as previously used by BBC network and local radio, RTE (Irish equivalent of the BBC) and several ILRs, but he lives 5 miles away from BBC and ILR ISDN facilities.

We are very limited by copyright as to what examples we can provide online but here is a 1 minute excerpt from a live concert by the accomplished A Cappella Singers (of Lancashire), performing Wagner's Bridal March, recorded using a coincident pair of AKG C3000Bs direct to CD, which we have permission to upload:



Here is an excerpt (the beginning) from a local pianist playing Gerswhin's Rhapsody in Blue:



Listen now to the start of a commercial meditation CD Ian did for Rainbow Tai Chi using his own FX:



Here are a couple of binaural stereo recordings Ian did which were added to the BBC Sound FX library - the "Ratty" in Cumbria and bell-ringing in Lancashire:

Ian Birch