And the great thing is that, because the piece will be played back exactly the same every time, I can really work with mic placement and ... I've got one to play the bass parts on, and then ...

Many now-norms of drum recording were first put to use during the making of this track. A key one was the damping (and close-mic’ing and compression) of the 22-inch bass drum of Starr’s Ludwig ...

The Arena 9 system excels at its core function: the surround sound is brilliant. As a 5.1 system, the Arena 9 comprises three ...

I moved the bass drum microphone very close to the drum itself, which really wasn’t considered the thing to do at the time. We then ran the kit sound through a Fairchild 660 valve compressor.” The ...

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