Live Recording Pioneer: David Hewitt Interview (The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Pink Floyd)

Recording engineer David Hewitt pioneered the art of remote recording. Over the past 40+ years, he has recorded live broadcasts, records, and audio for film and video, earning him multiple TEC Awards, Grammys, Emmys and Cinema Audio Society awards in the process, as well as the industry’s respect.

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David has been legendary in the live recording industry since the1970s, having built and operated the most advanced remote studios of the era. Working for the New York Record Plant Studios and his own company Remote Recording Services, his clients have included everyone from Aretha to Zappa, Miles to MJQ, George Jones to Shania Twain, live broadcasts from the Oscars to the NY Metropolitan Opera, and film scores from Die Hard to Disney.

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Known for both his skill and easygoing manner, David once served as director of remote services for the legendary Record Plant studio in New York, where he later founded Hewitt Recording Services. He was one of the first to develop the mobile truck into a premiere studio environment, integrating sonic isolation, top-level equipment, and technological adaptability fit to record a vast array of projects. David’s credits include Pink Floyd’s The Delicate Sound of Thunder; the Academy Awards; Live Aid; PBS’s Live from the Met series The Three Tenors; Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones’ Live at the Checkerboard Lounge; Eagles Live from Melbourne; and The Classic Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps.

His awards include many gold and platinum records, Cinema Audio Society awards and Grammy winning records, not to mention Emmy-winning broadcasts.

His peers in the recording industry have awarded him 8 TEC Awards and membership in the TEC Hall of Fame.

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