[quote="Spec A!"][quote="blueboy"]. Ghost rules as the best "drum sound" album. [/quote]
No waaay! Zenyatta! That's the album I spent countless nights falling asleep to, memorizing every little ghost note and hihat hit. At least for me Zenyatta is the penultimate "Stewart Copeland Drum Sound". I'd be curious as to what Stewart thinks! (hint hint).
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Well I have to agree that Zenyatta is very cool and the dry drum sound is perfect for that album....but I think even Stewart agrees that GITM and Synch took his drums to the next level.
Quote from Stewart on Recording at AIR studios:
[quote]Copeland says that engineer/producer Hugh Padgham was ineffectual when it came to the creative battles, but what he was good at was he knew where to put the microphone. He got a big sound. He got the ambient recording of the drums, but this is a perfect example of where putting the microphone in the right place clashed with making the band dynamic work: The big studio that George Martin built [AIR Montserrat, in the Caribbean] was at one end of the building, and I was upstairs in the old house in the dining room, all by myself with a television monitor connecting me to the studio downstairs across the way.
The first thing you have to do when you record music is lay down a drum track, but we were making it up as we went along, and I wasn't in the room with them. So, instead of finishing playing and going, Hey, that was good there, and that went there, there is silence. I can't hear what one of them is saying unless one of them presses the talk-back button. They aren't pressing the talk-back button, but I can see that they are talking and I assume it's bad. The drums sounded incredible because that was definitely the place to get the best sound out of the drums. Inarguably, the drums sounded brilliant in that room.[/quote]