03.18.2010
Ken Scott answers questions about his expansive career while promoting EpiK DrumS: A Ken Scott Collection
Elianne Halbersberg’s Report for Gibson features Ken Scott answering questions about his career while promoting EpiK DrumS: A Ken Scott Collection, here are quotes from the article:
“If The Beatles are part of your musical vocabulary, then producer/engineer Ken Scott is also a part of your music collection. Scott has been making records since he was 18, and among those records are the White Album, A Hard Day’s Night, Magical Mystery Tour, and countless others. Lately, Ken Scott has been in the news for his new A Ken Scott Collection: EpiK DrumS, the first in a series of software packages he has created with Sonic Reality. While an expert in miking and recording drum sounds, Scott also knows guitars and the techniques to capturing tone. Best of all, he mastered the craft the old-fashioned way: using and cutting tape in the days when the artist was king and creativity, not market research, ruled the studio. ‘…I started working with The Beatles, which was a blessing because they never wanted anything to sound the way it would normally sound, so we got to experiment a lot without worrying about budget or pissing the artist off. It was a perfect learning environment for me as a sound engineer’, said Scott, ‘…Learn from your mistakes! Today, it’s all cut and paste, on the grid, mistakes aren’t allowed. With The Beatles, mistakes would happen and they became a vital part of the recordings…Does anyone know what makes something great? If it comes from the heart, it stands more of a chance of lasting.’” – Elianne Halbersberg, Gibson
