Master of Sound with Everett Porter at Chattelin Audio June 29, 2018

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A couple of weeks ago, we were invited to a very special event.

Everett Porter is the lead recording and audio engineer of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam since more than 14 years.
He also recorded for the Wiener Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Academy, etc.

When I asked him if he had also recorded for some known orchestras, he had to laugh.




My wife and I photographed, but we only took our phones, so please excuse us.

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Chattelin Audio Systems is not a large store, but they aim to bring the high end to the people.
Situated in a nice neighbourhood in Den Haag (The Hague).






You will certainly recognise some well known brands in the artsy pics of my better half.

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We started the evening with a nice Indonesian buffet.




This is me talking to Ben van Leliveld, the man from Acousticmatters, a company that gives advice and executes room treatment (review in the make!).
He is now also one of the owners of Chattelin Audio.
And he bought the young label trptk, that makes fantastic recordings.

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Who said cables don't matter?!

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Porter examined a lot of speaker brands for his recording and mastering studio in the Concertgebouw.
Finally he chose these Grimm LS1 monitors in a 5.0 set-up.






Chattelin wanted to do better and installed and tuned a 5.0 system with LS1be monitors.

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Everett Porter is a very agreeable, entertaining person, talking with visible passion about his beautiful profession.
The evening was full of anecdotes.
The crowd was hanging at his lips.

Here's Ben introducing him:






As you see, focus was on the music, not on the image (small 32" screen).
But the images helped us to understand what a sound engineer can suffer when the solo soprano moves all over the scene.
We enjoyed immensely the recordings with this fascinating diva:

[W9TR]

Great write up of an awesome evening - I wish I was there! Nothing like having conversations with the people who capture the music we listen to.
Tom

[For The Love of Music]

Can see this was a great time, good post!

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Thank you!
It was our pleasure entirely.

[JemHadar]

As always...great report. Thanks for sharing