I can't believe how amazing this album is and how amazing it sounds. I picked it up for $5 at Amazon this week on CD just on a lark. I'd never heard it but $5? Okay. I didn't even know it had Buddy Buy and Willie Dixon. $5 for a Muddy album I haven't heard? Okay - sold.
The music is amazing - can't say enough about it. But I'm specifically interested in the recording techniques and mixing used by Ron Malo. The picture from the back cover shows Willie, Muddy, and Buddy in a small space with one mic facing Muddy. Is that how it was really recorded or is that the rehearsal/press pic? When I listen, it doesn't seem that way. "My Captain" for example is just the two guitars and Muddy singing. Buddy is in the right channel and Muddy's guitar is straight up the middle. There's absolutely none of Buddy's guitar in the left side that I can hear. I can hear some reverb from Buddy in the right though.
And the reverb - holy smokes that is incredible. EMT 140? Some crazy pipe system?
I hope some folks here can shed light on it. I've spent the past 30 minutes trying to find specifics about the session but, other than finding out the studio and engineer, that's about as far as I've gotten.
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The music is amazing - can't say enough about it. But I'm specifically interested in the recording techniques and mixing used by Ron Malo. The picture from the back cover shows Willie, Muddy, and Buddy in a small space with one mic facing Muddy. Is that how it was really recorded or is that the rehearsal/press pic? When I listen, it doesn't seem that way. "My Captain" for example is just the two guitars and Muddy singing. Buddy is in the right channel and Muddy's guitar is straight up the middle. There's absolutely none of Buddy's guitar in the left side that I can hear. I can hear some reverb from Buddy in the right though.
And the reverb - holy smokes that is incredible. EMT 140? Some crazy pipe system?
I hope some folks here can shed light on it. I've spent the past 30 minutes trying to find specifics about the session but, other than finding out the studio and engineer, that's about as far as I've gotten.
