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-How much does the skill of a given drummer affect your choice of microphones? Are you ever afraid a guy is gonna hit a mic and break hit ?
-Oh of course you know yeah … not very much expect for that story that i told about when i first recorded a drums and i used 87 on every drum.
-Hahum
-And i would never do that again
-In the studio ?
-In the studio, and the owner went nuts ! ” Oh you hit on of those drum..mics, you’re buying it !”
and you know,hum, He didn’t hit it.
And, but I tend to go with this mics on all the drum kids, and the drummer hit a 421 he is not gonna do anything but he can ****
Now i have had a drummer knocked the top of a 57 and … ” C’est la vie ” you know …
-That’s right you get another one, this a 79 $ microphone
-What do you think about 57? It’s been around for 35 year
-Let me tell you, when i first started to play it out, and I was singing, and i was looking around tryin’ to find a singing mic and i had, this is years ago, i had first microphone ahead the kind of Elvis had, it was like this, and it had a swithch on it.
and It was the pre-57,and then it came out, then it was 57 and i bought those for my band
I insisted on 57 any place i was singing, i liked those and they said ” there is the 58, it’s the same mic ” no, it isn’t ,it’s a different cabinet …
So i was with 57 and then when i started engineering, and the 57 sounded great on snares , and it’s funny my all life has been involved with 57, singing, snare drums, guitar amps
i mean,if I’m trying all kind of esoteric stuff on a guitar amp, no matter what I’m doin’, I’ll have a 57 on it also, just because that guys is gonna bite and come right through, I mean this is a,this is,this, i don’t know if they have won any award or so but this is a fantastic development. I mean when you the see the president talking on mics those are 57 with those windshield with a little screws on it. This is a fantastic development
the guy who invented that should have an award, or, maybe yes, tons of awards, you know ..
-Pretty good deal huh ?
-Fantastic.
-80 bucks…
-80 bucks, you going there and you are in any studio and there are half a dozen of them in every place.
-And it last a long time too.
-Ho my godness.
-Most of the time..
-Exactly … till you chop its head off
-When I’m tracking, yeah, when I’m tracking, I’ll, i usually go thru an analog tap-machine, but it’s a,it’s a much more involved set up to do it because I’m going coming of to reprohead of the analog machine and the band can’t hear that way, you know, so i have to feed the band the inputs and bring, and then me monitor different in here.
So it has to be in a special situation where I’m not getting leakage and they are not any getting leakage, you know , but it just works great.
-When did you make your transition to digital audio ?
-You know there was.. In the beginning of 1984 Sony came out with a thing called F1, where you would have a digital audio converter and that would convert it to a stream of digital that recorded on a Betamax machine… you couldn’t use a VHS because the VHS wasn’t even enought VHS is still was now*ere near quali*y of Be*a
And , so i got one of those immediately, and i started mixing to that in 84, and i would still make the analogs,like i still do now and, hu, yeah i started mixing the digital then, and then from that i went to a DAT , the DAT machine, and the Protools, well Protools is funny. The..those gentlemen came here last night, my friend Mike,ha, who is teaching at Valley College, he was doing a recording you know psychiatrist do this things for their clients you know “you’re ok” ?you know,” people like you,” you know that kind of stuff you know “all you have, don’t, don’t look at those weird looks you’re *a*ing jus* be ause you have 3 eyes” you know…
but anyways, so he talked her in*o gi*ing **e money up fron*.
He said it would be a lot easier for you because i can use this new thing called Protools and this was in the time they had… i guess it was called the 441, that’s what protool says, and i had read about pro tool so i said “mike when you’re not using it, could you, could you ..mind if i can come over and try to figure it out?”and and he s..”no for sure”.So i did that. But it still sounded terrible, i mean i would try doin’ you know you would do hu, background vocal in one course..
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I called you later today.
You do background vocal in one course and then you would, hu, fly them in. Well i would put the stuff on protool and fly back over and …
I didn’t think it sounded as good as like an AMS sampler but you could really manipulate it
and it just get incrementally and incrementally better… when they came out ADD 24
It was to me a time for to use it, and luckily i had been playin’ around, and fooling around and doin’ all this stuff so I go* in*o using i* rig*t on
