Recordings and CDs
Recording and Broadcast System in the Peace Tower Carillon - Parliament of Canada
Recording and Broadcast System in the Peace Tower Carillon - Parliament of Canada
Peter is a professional recording engineer, having worked with Radio Canada producer André Massicotte on the following albums.
Magdalene Wood – Lisa Moody & Dina Michelson Namer
“Peter took a great deal of care editing this CD, resulting in a final product that is of the highest professional quality” – Lisa Moody
https://open.spotify.com/album/3uJ2t3FKmcEYtWc0bph5A1
McGillicutty's Rant - David Bolshoy
https://open.spotify.com/album/07RMyYahEH4UCAg3ZU86vc
Jesu, meine Freude – Ottawa Bach Choir
“..it’s as thoroughly professional and pleasing a recording as you can hope to find” – American Music Guide 2009
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6k2LJmT4lQZLCdToFVr0y0
A Christmas Story - Ottawa Bach Choir
https://open.spotify.com/album/5Z6eFWK6yQJx62M4YLxQI9
El Dorado – Caroline Leonardelli, Harpist
“Leonardelli’s tremendous interpretive ability is matched by astonishing engineering and production … It doesn’t get much better than this for solo musicianship or recorded sound.” – The Music Scene
https://open.spotify.com/album/2LtmOacIvYGKAt8X7a8uTs
“Panache” – Julie Nesrallah & Caroline Leonardelli
“Four stars, A jewel of a recording” – Richard Todd, Ottawa Citizen
Recording and Broadcast System in the Peace Tower Carillon - Parliament of Canada
Recording and Broadcast System in the Peace Tower Carillon - Parliament of Canada
Recording and Broadcast System in the Peace Tower Carillon - Parliament of Canada
In 2014, I was commissioned to design a recording and broadcast system for the Carillon in the Peace Tower. The system includes 6 high dynamic DPA microphones positioned on the three levels housing the Carillon Bells. The microphones are balanced and mixed to two channels to feed the Bryston amplifier and Harbeth studio monitors in the Carillon control room. The system also provides digital and analog output feeds to meet recording and broadcast requirements.
Between 1925 and 1927, the world-famous bell foundry of Gillett and Johnston in Croydon, England, cast and tuned the Peace Tower Carillon’s 53 bells. The largest, called the “bourdon,” weighs 10,090 kilograms and sounds the note E, while the smallest weighs only 4.5 kilograms and sounds the note A, four-and-a-half octaves higher. Each bell is tuned to produce a specific note on the musical scale. The bells are stationary and rung by the movement of their internal clappers, each one connected directly to the carillon console by a series of mechanical linkages.
