Pink Floyd

Does anyone know anything about James Guthrie?

James Guthrie begun his career working with Greg Walsh (Tina Turner etc) at Mayfair Studios London. James Guthrie now has his own studio called Das Boot in Lake Tahoe and he uses ATC's (like David Gilmour). Pretty much all the remasters of Pink Floyd (like the SACD stuff) and newer solo related stuff (such as "On an Island" etc) were all done on ATC's. Greg Walsh was one of the early users of ATC along with Hugh Padgham (Police, Peter Gabriel, Phil Colins etc.) A large portion of UK music made in the 80's was done on ATC's whilst the USA were still using horns. Nowadays both sides of the pond have many ATC users.

I believe James Guthrie uses EMM Labs DAC's and preamps

So nothing new about James association with Pink Floyd - so you can expect more of the same.

Just another quick historical note - Alan Parsons is the one responsible for the sound behind the original masterpiece DSOTM. Alan still uses B&W speakers, as far as I know, and swears by them.

Might check out Division Bell out of curiosity, like that tune with Steven Hawking.

According to the principles at Astoria, Parsons was not responsible for the "sound behind the original DSOTM" in any significant way. Further, when it came time for the remasters, Guthrie was the unanimous choice because he knew the project better-- inside and out. There as a tiff over that, of course.

According to the studio, the band played the lead role in assuring top sound quality for that particular masterwork, not the mastering engineers. The Studio felt Guthrie was the talent behind the panel, not Parsons, though Alan did get accolades and a lot of the credit.

Guthrie and Doug Sax still work together today and there is no love between those two and Parsons.