[Teekens]

Hi Steve,

It's been really cool reading this whole thread. Not too much into the Haiku stuff, so I'll just ask this plain style.

I am a drummer, recorder and a big fan of Dave Grohl's sound and playing, especially on the "In Utero" record. I'm always experimenting, trying to get big sounds like that one.

I tried to figure out the most I could about the recording, which isn't much actually. It would have been Dave on a Tama Artstar II kit in a wooden or stone room with lots of mic's all over the place, even ones taped to the floor.

This is about all I could find about it and I would love to find out more.

I tried several recordings of drumsets and found that when using too many (room) mics, the sounds gets muddy and loses it's power. If you did use many mics on this record, was the trick for keeping power avoiding phase issues by very precise mic placement?

Do you also recall any special things about the drum set, drum heads or tuning?

I would love to learn more about how you did this record. It sounds really great to me. For me, that drum sound is right up there with the old Led Zeppelin records. Great!