Re: Great mistake Glyn...

[Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Again, I think the sarcasm emoticon should've been employed!!  I believe there 
were some other comments made by Glyn, or possibly Kramer that I think was them 
trying to take credit for shit Jimmy did. Next thing you know that whole 
distance micing thing was their brainstorm too.  "I was the one who hung the 
mic in the stairwell man"

 Frig even on my most archaic Boss Dr Rythm DR-550 you can set the panning for 
every little clink it can produce! 

 

 

 

Original Message
From: pauleh <pauleh@xxxxxxx>
To: Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zeppelin <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Jul 31, 2013 2:59 pm
Subject: Re: Great mistake Glyn...


  Ha Nech! 

     I call BS on that! Any engineer worth their weight in salt back then 
would've know about the advent of stereo microphone techniques in use in the 
1950's by EMI and the Mid Side technique invented by Blumlein.

   As technically savvy as Jimmy was he should've or would've known that too. 
But don't for one second think anyone in the Zep camp back then would take 
credit for something which they didn't come up with

  on their own. Geez, what do these "left, right , center" switches do? And 
what's that thing called "Pan" Cheers! PH ;-) 

  http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/feb97/stereomiking.html


On Jul 31, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> http://somethingelsereviews.com/2013/07/30/i-found-it-by-mistake-how-glyn-johns-helped-showcase-led-zeppelins-huge-drum-sound/
> 
> 
> 
> Glyn Johns, who engineered Led Zeppelinâ??s 1969 self-titled debut, basically 
stumbled upon a new way of recording drummer John Bonham â?? creating the 
dynamic 
stereo cadences that drive tracks like â??Communication Breakdown.â??
> Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page produced the album, but it was a microphone 
switch by Johns â?? famous for his work, too, with the Rolling Stones, the 
Beatles 
and the Who â?? that changed everything: In setting up multiple mics for 
Bonham, 
Johns accidentally had one of them directed to one side of the stereo mix. The 
rest of his performance was emanating from the middle.
> â??Half of the drums were coming out of the left, by mistake,â?? Johns says 
> in 
this Q&A. â??And I thought: I wonder what it would sound like if I took the one 
in 
the middle, and put it on the other side. And there is was â?? the beginning of 
stereo drums.â??