Jim Webb: Multi-track Location Recording for Film

20 April 2007

At the start of a career that spanned 32 years, 60 feature films and 65,000 hours of recording, American sound recordist Jim Webb devised the multi-track location recording system on Nashville that helped define Robert Altman’s directorial style. Webb looks at the creative – rather than remedial – potential of multi-track recording through his work with some of the most innovative directors of the last thirty years including Altman, Coppola, Pakula and Wenders.

Multi-track Location Recording for Film

References:
California Split (Robert Altman 1994) 00:00:00 – 00:07:23 & 00:09:50 – 00:12:23
Nashville (Robert Altman 1975) 00:02:30 – 00:05:50 & 00:09:56 – 00:17:40
For the Boys (Mark Rydell 1991) All the President’s Men (Alan Pakula 1976) 00:45:35 – 00:51:15