Ed Cherney
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Registered: 02/11/00
Posts: 547
Loc: Venice, Ca.
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Hobo,
I could not agree more. You are most likely talking about from the "Let It Bleed" era. There is something about those records that kill me. I am not so sure that the newer recordings feel as good. When I am engineering for the Stones, I am never sure that I am getting anywhere close to making a classic. I think that it is probably material, attitude, arrangement, hell, something. I am always striving to get close to that sound and feel, and I rarely think that I have. I really mess around with different mic techniques, one mic, multiple mices, close, far, room gating, etc. etc. The truth is, as much as I am sick of saying it, and you are sick of hearing it, Charlie makes his drums sound the way they sound. You can sit there, the song isn't coming together, the drums aren't sounding right, nothing is fitting together, and all of a sudden, BAM, it's grooving, feels and sounds great, and you have not touched a thing.....he makes the engineer be a genius, or an asshole.
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