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I usually mix slowly and my ears are gone after 2-3 hours.

I have the extended box set on vinyl and it is amazing!

China makes acoustic guitars for you.

Norman Blake is one of my acoustic favorites. He used to come into our shop in Nashville all the time and watching him play up close were the best guitar lessons I ever took.

Cat Steven’s had a great acoustic sound on his early records.

I think they compressed the shit out of the acoustic’s on that record. The Stills acoustic lead on Buffalo Springfield’s Mr. Soul is the most compressed acoustic but it sounds so perfect like that.

I’m always worried about phase with multiple mics on one source.

How do you deal with the phase issues with that setup?

What acoustic guitar recordings, or records that feature acoustic guitar, have what you consider great world class acoustic tone? I’ll start with the acoustic sound on Blind Faith, Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells A Story album and, Low Spark Of High Heeled boys. These records were all...

I kinda like the hard panned guitars. The recording sounds great.

It’s funny because my console is an API The Box Console, so I’m always in one box or another…lol.

You have to put their live performances into historical context. They were pushing the envelope every night, same as Jimi and others trying to expand on the blues. My point about the bass and kick being locked is about recording and producing records. In a live setting where a large portion...

Steppin Out was the Yardbirds. But Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were locked on the kick drum on all of their studio records. Here was my favorite track from Disraeli Gears and the bass is locked to the kick, which doesn’t mean the bass isn’t playing outside of the kick as well at times in a...

The bass is locked onto the kick on this track and is on the rest of this album too. It’s pretty much a basic requirement for a major label record.

Yeah, that would be professional bands.

These guys all played with the kick. I didn’t mean to imply that the bass can’t play melodically or play other bass notes in between the kick drum, but they have to be locked to the kick for it to work well. A bass player can play simple or play busy as long as they are in synch with the kick...

Guitar players are a dime a dozen. A great band can have a mediocre guitar player as long as the bass and drums are great and the band can still be great with great songs and a professional singer. REM is a great example. Peter Buck is not a guitar virtuoso but he always plays exactly the right...

As a producer it’s pretty easy to tell which bass players are the frustrated guitarists because they have a universal problem with the ability to lock down on the kik drum. A real bass player understands above all else that the bass and kik must function as basically one instrument.