[When Drummers Get Carried Away...]

Yeah....I'd actually seen that online earlier in the year....pretty entertaining. Someone should repost that on youtube with a subtitle like...."A lesson in making the simple, appear difficult" - LOL

I tell ya' though.....I don't share his personal taste in drum kit colors I wonder if that was standard color for Ludwig at one time, or if he had those custom-built? Either way, I hope he got a hell-of-a-deal -LOL

Tom

I don't know if I should cry or laugh. I'm almost more interested in who hires a band like that to come play, and that's funny I think.

[Guitar Recording Techniques]

Thanks for sharing those videos. It's a good way to quickly learn the different options. I think that with most of those mics, they will add a bit of high end to the sound. I pry wouldn't trust the sm81 as much as he said with regards to natural sound, but if you like the sound then go for it.

My favorite spot to mic the guitar is over the shoulder at the bridge using a small diaphragm. Surprisingly good balance of tone from the instrument. I also like MS technique out front, and at the bridge. This way there's no phasing.

With regards to phasing there's a golden rule that said for a spaced pair, the distance between the two mics should be 3x the distance from the instrument. Now, you could get away with doing what sounds best, cause there are no rules! I like to put both mics in a pair of headphones in mono to listen for weirdness. I take one mic of it's stand so I can move it around freely as the person plays. If I hear any strange holes in the frequency, then I know something up.

[Church Modes]

I would jump at the idea of writing in a mode. Each of them sound different and some of them really cool. The ethnic fusion ground Delerium has a song called "Lamentation" of the Karma ablum that is in a mode and they drone on C but play in F minor I believe. Sounds very very beautiful. I would imagine that you could go to drop D and play in G and have like a drone 5th.

[Greetings From 3100 Ft]

Hey everyone,

My name is Ryan Earnhardt and I am a drummer and owner of a studio here in Asheville called, Lumen Audio. If I had to say one thing about myself it's this: As much as I learn about the craft of audio production, I learn more and more how important that songs that we record then become. After all, what good is expensive gear without a great song written from the heart. There's a lot of musicians learning to record, and that's cool, but so many musicians begin to forget about the lyrics and melody when the get caught up in the tech stuff. That's what I'm hear for, the music. Honest, raw music.

Right now I'm into Great Lake Swimmers and "Rising Sand" by Robert Plant.

Thanks for having me here on the forums and I hope to meet and talk with many of you, Ryan