VIENNA, Austria – Nominated for a GRAMMY®
for Best Classical Compendium in 2013, producer, engineer, artist and
internationally recognized performer John Schneider has relied on HARMAN’s AKG
K240 headphones for the last five years in his studio when recording and mixing
the unique music of Harry Partch with his band, PARTCH. The band’s most
recent 3-disc album – Partch: Bitter
Music – was produced by Schneider with AKG headphones as they offer the
“most realistic sound” available.
Harry Partch was an innovator in the world of
classical music, creating custom-made, unique instruments, including the Boo
II, Quadrangularis Reversum and Harmonic Canons, among a vast list of others, which
play notes scaling a 43-note octave.
Bitter Music was recorded and mixed at the
Architecture studio in Los Angeles, utilizing the K240’s recommended to
Schneider when he was a radio broadcast engineer. He adopted the K240
headphones for their true sound during recording and playback.
“I wanted the flattest, best and most realistic sound
when I was in the studio,” Schneider said. “There is no other type of music
like the sound of Harry Partch, so to understand the beauty of the scales and
intricate instruments, the sound must be exactly as it was intended. AKG’s
K240’s are honest, with no extra sound boosting. Other headphones are used for that
experience, but the K240’s provide me with the true sound of a mix; everything
I put into it – no more, no less.”
For more information about AKG, please visit http://www.akg.com and http://www.youtube.com/AKGacoustics.
For more information or videos of PARTCH, please visit http://www.myspace.com/partchensemble/videos.
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