Opeth and drum mess...

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

Hey Andy you trojan,

I saw on the Opeth dvd that mikeal was saying that you sorted out a huge mess on the tapes by pulling various cymbal parts from the overheads etc...

If you have the time this would be interesting to read about.

Sam

 

[Andy Sneap]

mmmmm not quite sure what he's on about, they recorded the drums for deliverance themselves and shall we say there were a few errors/bad choices made in the techniques used, but yknow...keeps me in a job! Martin is quite fussy about cymbal stuff and I cant remember if there were only 2 oh's recorded, even though he had god knows how many cymbals. If I'm micing OH's I'll always try and get 2 cymbals per mic

 

[Tranquillian]

I am quite sure you are mixing up Andy with Fredrik Nordström at Fredman.

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

mmmmm not quite sure what he's on about, they recorded the drums for deliverance themselves and shall we say there were a few errors/bad choices made in the techniques used, but yknow...keeps me in a job! Martin is quite fussy about cymbal stuff and I cant remember if there were only 2 oh's recorded, even though he had god knows how many cymbals. If I'm micing OH's I'll always try and get 2 cymbals per mic

Ah well bad sounding cymbals can ruin a whole recording imo. They ended up sounding quite nice actually so you did a pretty awesome job.

The only thing i really noticed was in the dvd when they have those shots of him playing on the documentary part the ride bell sounded like total crap, then again that was recorded on a camera haha

 

[Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral]

I am quite sure you are mixing up Andy with Fredrik Nordström at Fredman.

I'm quite sure I'm not. Fredrik helped engineer the recording in the later stages, Andy mixed and mastered it.