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If you can dig up Fletcher's recent post about micing drums you'll save yourself some trouble...

This is the guy who goes out and makes the appointment for J-Lo, or something? The ass engineer makes sure she gets waxed on time when she's in session?

How do I tune this thing???

I don't understand the need to make musicians wear headphones if they are happy without them. If things appear not to be going well it will be best to ask what the band cares to do. If they are abusive or, God forbid, violent then throw them out. If you are running a business just put up a sign that...

All I can say is that you should listen to it in the environment you intend to work.

I wonder if you couldn't use those tiny clip-on condensors, like AKG makes for tom-toms...

No Kidding!

Can't hurt to have one more great sounding mic laying around...

Should do.

You're not going to fry your amp with that line level signal are you? Probably not...

I would move the Overheads closer together, maybe in a tight spaced pair facing directly down over the Kick and only a foot or two apart. This can make the OH's sound stronger and more phase coherent than a widely spaced pair. Phase problems will be the greatest threat to a big sound. So stay vigila...

A friend let me borrow some in Seattle long ago. I had a fun time with them and did learn quite a bit.

It is very useful to be able to look at an EQ and have a more intuitive sense of what it will do before tweaking with it...

In this case I would mix everything around the kick drum...

We shall see indeed.

I consider the album take of "Get Back" to be the greatest pop recording of all time...I wonder what will change?

Calf skins aren't too hard to find. Any Guitar Center can have them for you in a week. I needed some a couple years ago and it was nothing to get them in town quickly.

The way I see it my clients are paying for their time not mine. Granted it's my place and all the toys are MINE! But!!! If someone has a question I think it is perfectly appropriate to stop what I am doing and give a response. If someone wants to experiment we do it. Basically, I try and give them t...

I find bigness to be a quality not of loudness but one of frequency. When I record very frequency specific stuff like electric guitar or a piccolo snare, or a tambourine say, I sometimes try and suck out some of the high mids in order to level out the frequency response to tape. If I can accentuate ...