NPR's Tiny Desk Concert Series has seen and increase in its popularity post-pandemic and is now a must for up and coming as well as established artists. Neil Tevault started the concert series when Bob Boilen came to NPR's music studio with an idea to record an artist at his desk. Josh Newell is the current technical director of NPR Music who is working to keep the standards set at the highest level and move the concert series into the future.
Neil will present a couple of concerts from early in the series looking at the small recording footprint that was employed. The very first concert with Laura Gibson, which was a single microphone and a DI and Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Zakir Hussain who played around a single stereo shotgun microphone.
Josh will present a couple of recent concerts to show how everything has grown and we have moved all the microphones closer and increased the number of microphones to capture the sound that the Tiny Desk is known for. Josh will also look at what we're doing to make things work better and make the recording process more efficient on concert day. We'll discuss Josh's vision for the sound of the Tiny Desk moving into the future.
