03.01.2010
Ken Scott while promoting EpiK DrumS: A Ken Scott Collection stops to answer some in-depth questions from fans
Elianne Halbersberg’s Report for Premier Guitar features Ken Scott answering questions from the reporter as well as select fans about his career while promoting his new software with Sonic Reality, EpiK DrumS: A Ken Scott Collection, here are excerpts of Ken’s quotes from the article:
“’It’s funny, I remember an engineer who, when mixing, would zero out everything every night just so that no one could copy how he got his sound. To me, that’s such bullshit, because you can copy to the nth degree and it still will not come out like it’s him or me doing it. There’s a sensibility that’s indefinable. It has nothing to do with EQ and reverb. It basically comes down to the same way I mic’ed drums back in the day: a Neumann U67, now a U87, and normally some kind of compression, maybe an LA-3A [Audio Leveler] or something like that. With acoustic guitar it has changed a bit. With the Beatles I used an AKG d19c. It was a general-purpose mic and I liked it for a lot of things. I also used U67s and AKG C12s.’ When Scott was asked what it was like to lead Beatles sessions he replied, ‘They were in complete control, but they were absolutely open to input. Sometimes that input was purely accidental…Sometimes that input was meant as a joke.’ When asked what John used on ‘Revolution’ to create the fuzz tone Scott replied, “They were overdriving two of the mic preamps on an EMI REDD desk that was being used at the time. I was a mastering engineer at the beginning of the White Album recordings, and I happened to go to Studio 3, where they were recording that track. John, Paul and George were all in the control room and had their guitars plugged directly into the board, and Ringo was all on his own on the drums in the studio. Geoff Emerick came up with a very cool way to distort by going in one preamp to overload and into another preamp to distort it even more.”" – Elianne Halbersberg, Premier Guitar
Read Part 1 of the full article here
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