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[Jules]

Led Zep interview snippet

Rick: And you've finished your new album?

Plant: We finished that, and we did it in our own home. Well, how it went was that we used a mobile truck for our recording unit and we went to an old manor in Surrey. There we put up all the equipment in one room and stuck all the mike leads through a window. Straight into the recording van. So anything that we did just went straight down on tape. Bit by bit it grew up into a great collage of numbers.

Rick: Do you like it?

Plant: (nodding head): Yeah. It was another atmosphere altogether.

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The mobile truck he's referring to had a Helios console in it.

Looking around the web quickly - I cant seem to find any supporting evidence regarding the M160's as the mic's actually used.. So I will have to re-enforce that my opinion was a hunch more than a presented fact and a matter on which I still seek clarity!

Here is the original statement -"I believe the M160 + Helios is the Zeppelin overhead drum signal chain (ain't it?)"

Along with did AW use use samples on the mix of Nevermind? - this could be  perhaps one of the great  unanswered audio engineer mysteries of our time!

[hurricaneE]

Fletcher wrote on Fri, 04 June 2004 20:17

You might want to check out something like a Speck Electronics 5.0... they're very quiet, very clear, quite opulent sounding and not all that expensive.

If it's not too late, I LOVE the above chain on bass, and imagine it would be great for vocals, too (I don't use a 160 on vox but can certainly see doing so).

[vernon]

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Looking around the web quickly - I cant seem to find any supporting evidence regarding the M160's as the mic's actually used.. So I will have to re-enforce that my opinion was a hunch more than a presented fact and a matter on which I still seek clarity!

jules, i don't know whether M160s were used for regular overheads, but i did hear that they were used as distant mics when the drums for "when the levee breaks" were recorded in a concrete stairwell or something like that. so i tried using the 160s as room mics on a kit in a room with just brick walls, no acoustic treatment etc.. and now i'm sure that that was what was used - the sound i got was very similar, and that was with no processing at all. just sticking those mics up in a big old echoey room.

[playon]

The Beyer M-160 thru either Great River preamp is a wonderful thing... the MP2H is probably the most versatile, and was made with ribbon mics in mind -- I believe it designed around the RCA BK-11.

Al