Alan Meyerson is an LA based scoring engineer whose engineering and mixing credits include Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2, King Kong, Bourne Identity, Spy Kids 2 and many more. Any recent scores written by Hans Zimmer or James Horner were likely recorded by Alan. In his quest for great recordings, Alan has built a collection of more than 200 microphones which are in constant use.

Alan has a number of Royer mics and has invited us into the studio to photograph how he uses ribbons on his sessions. Along with our commercially available mics, Alan has tried all of our prototypes at one time or another and has given us invaluable feedback on the performance of the mics. He's the first classical engineer to put up R-122Vs and he's used our prototype SF-24V a number of times.

In these sessions photos you'll see how Alan has changed out his three M-50s on the Decca Tree for three R-122Vs on a few recent scores, including Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and Matchstick Men It's a revolutionary move, as Decca Tree mics are typically M-50s (classic Neumann omni mics). You can also see a few shots from the first time he put up the prototype SF-24V stereo tube ribbon microphone.

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