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first off from what i remember youve made some pretty sweet recordings. of course they dwarfed my home recording skills at the time, which may have affected my reverence for them. but i always thought the creativity and clever arranging trumped whatever might have been lacking in the mix quality. a...

Carol's an easy one. For one, it's really important that you're using a pick, a felt mute, and a 4x10 guitar amp, she used a Super-Reverb. I've seen quite a few pictures of her amp mic-ed up, and a few more of other contemporaries with their amps mic-ed. Most used Bassmen, and you'll see lots of 666...

Earl could handle "The Edge" just fine, though Guerin was indeed a great. Did you guy look at the gallery on Axelrod's site? Lots of great photos from Capitol and beyond. Like this one: http://www.davidaxelrodmusic.com/src/images/61541.jpg Confirms the C-37a as-single-overhead trend, and there's a f...

Yeah, it is all speculation until photos of exact sessions turn up. Still, from what I can gather, drums did not really get a true multi-mic treatment until much later than we tend to think. Unfortunately, I seem to be the most knowledgeable person about practical recording techniques in LA in the 6...

What a great photo. You've done some extensive research there, have you applied any of this stuff to any of your recordings? Most of the mic's you mentioned (the 'big boys') are out of my price league, probably for a long long time. I have to say, I'm leaning towards getting a LDC or Tube condensor...

A typical '60s drum mic setup seems to be: a mic outside the front of the kick, like an EV dynamic or one of the cheaper RCA ribbon mics; a condenser in front of the kit, looking at the toms, or a condenser/ribbon mic over the snare in front of the drummer's face (as in the picture). There's Aretha...

Good advice all around, thanks. In particular, I was struck by: but, if you're not happy with them, then i'd say try and figure out exactly what you're not happy with. are the mixes muddy? shrill? too cluttered? too midrangey? do you feel like the problems stem from the way you tracked stuff, or was...

OK, so I was trying to compile a CD of "my best stuff" for a friend who hadn't heard any of my recordings (on which I'm the performer and engineer), so I went through my entire recorded output, more or less, covering the last 10 years or so that I've been recording myself. It had been a while since ...

just got these stems, what is going on with this drum track? is that some kind of compression thats widening the stereo image of the hihat on every first beat? also sounds like a weird slapbackish type echo on the first rimshot of almost every measure but not the second two. also kind of cool you c...

But does anybody know about what one of these goes for on the "open market"?

Count me in as somebody who really likes the D112. Assuming I get the tuning and damping the way I want, I've never not really liked the D112 sound. The easiest and most enjoyably reliable thing on the drums. For me.

Don't be afraid to really let the chimes ring...the first time I recorded chimes I was playing a lot of notes and everything was ringing and I thought it would get kind of to be too much so I started releasing the pedal a lot, but that didn't really sound good, was noisy, etc. So I just let everythi...

Experiment with this: Copy the whole stereo track, and collapse it to mono. Invert it. Then, take the right side of the stereo track and separate that off into it's own mono track. Play that against your inverted complete mono track, in mono. If it works, the right side material will cancel out the ...

Jeremy, that was my thinking as well, about reverb order, in fact I approached as you did with the math equations. Thanks for weighing in.

My abilities as a music reader really opened up when stopped worrying about counting and focused on reading music like I would English. I think it's too much to be thinking about counting, the pitch, and the performance, at least at a high level. It's much easier to think of that all at once, just ...