Notes on recording equipment

When it comes to recording equipment, there’s a whole new lexicon to learn—cryptic and bureaucratic-sounding machine monikers like “1031As” and “the Neve 8068.” I’ve decided to start giving the equipment secret nicknames to help me remember it all. It’s not clear to me why studio gear almost universally goes by its technical labels. I am amazed by people who converse in its nomenclature.

It also all looks alike, more or less, with a color gradient ranging from black to gray to silver. Its only colorful features are knobs and wires, strictly perfunctory aesthetics for distinguishing between otherwise identical-looking connection cables. It all kind of looks like what I imagine the inside of an analog television to be.