David Byrne - Sessions At West 54th

"The idea of the Sessions sound is for the audience to hear what the acts hear onstage," says the show's recording/mixing engineer, Tom Cadley. This means bringing the audience right onto the soundstage, figuratively speaking. This is accomplished, in part, by using one of recording's oldest and simplest microphone arrangements: the three-mic overhead configuration commonly known as the Decca Tree (coined by classical engineers for Decca Records many years ago). Cadley says the Decca Tree defines the sound of the show: "You're definitely hearing the room; you hear what the musicians hear onstage, not my idea of what it should sound like using this or that reverb unit."


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