How were the drums recorded?
Siket: In keeping with the minimal spirit of this record, we only had a rack tom and a floor tom on the drum kit. We just wanted high and low sounds. I also went conservative with the drum mics, because we wanted a simplified sound. In the initial ten-day period we spent just getting sounds, I went through a lot of different bass-drum mics. I tried the Sennheiser MD421, and an Audio Technica AE2500, which has a dual dynamic and condenser element. I had high hopes for that, but, in the end, I went back to my old standby, the AKG D12E. I felt that was the right sound, and it took the least amount of EQing to get a workable sound. It just fit the other mics on the set. I placed the D12E inside the shell about half way in, and pointed it at the beater. For the snare, I placed a Heil PR20, angled about 45 degrees, and pointing towards the rim to get some of the ring of the drum. I also experimented with detuning the bass drum as low as it would go without sounding ridiculous. You get a lot
