Here is a good link for all you home recorders who play the drums but only use drum machines / samplers to get your beats down… Derek Miller i’m looking in your direction…. Now get recording!!!!!

It seems the guitarist has flown to join the band for their sessions. http://pascalstudio.blogspot.com/ In one of the pictures you can see an old Gibson amp mic’ed up, and they mention using a Harmony hollowbody. I can attest to the breaking up sound they mention. It is one of the most lovely guitar sounds to [...]

This is the blog of the recording of an album by the Detroit band PAS/CAL: http://pascalstudio.blogspot.com/ The music is sweet, rock and rollicking pop with all the right ingredients. The 2 ‘singles’ ‘What Happened to the Sands’ and ,’The Bronze Beached Boys (Come On Let’s Go)’ available for download from the band website (http://www.pascalgoespop.com/) sound [...]

Tapeop is a magazine and associated website (http://www.Tapeop.com) that was/is created by a dedicated group of recording professionals.  I have learned so much from this institution it’s not funny.  I was first introduced to the magazine in the year 2000 when I was given a copy of what looked like a ‘zine by my friend [...]

Came across this on the internet. It gives a short blurb about why analog multitrack tape recorders are still valid in this digital recording age (not that analog multitrack tape recorders need a reason to be valid). http://www.proaudioeurope.com/london/vintage/multitracks/index.html The ‘Why get one’, and ‘So what are the sonic advantages’ sections speak volumes to me and [...]

Here is an helpful / interesting thread on the tapeop.com message board. It’s pictures of diffrent peoples miking techniques for the drums. http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=31237 As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.