EQ Magazine - February 2009 - (Page 9) STERLING ANDREWS Cooley surrounded by his cliché-killin’ tools. AKG C12A. It depends on what sounds good on a particular voice. Usually, we’ll put up eight different mics at the beginning of a project, and have the vocalist sing through them all in order to see which one really flatters their voice.” Cooley is just as picky about drums, and he’s fastidious about tuning. “I spend a lot of time tuning drums,” he admits. “We’ll sit around a Casio keyboard, and make sure that the notes the snare and toms are sounding do something musical to the song. We might go through ten different snare drums to find the one that produces a note that’s flattering to the music. I learned that many producers in the ’60s and ’70s were extremely concerned with how the tuning of the drums affected the overall sound. Apparently, the Rolling Stones were very big on that.” For compression, Cooley tends to rely on two polar opposites—a Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor for adding color, flavor, and distortion (especially on 100 percent digital tracks), and a Cranesong STC-8 for extremely transparent level adjustments. He also owns a couple of compressors made by John Hinson, who is apparently one of the very few people to have access to the schematics for the modifications EMI techs did to the ’50s- and ’60s-era Altec compressors used at Abbey Road. For monitoring, Cooley is hooked on Barefoot Sound MM27s. “They’re incredible,” he says. “They have a lot of extension in the low end, but they also have the super-clear midrange of a Yamaha NS10.” Cooley’s cliché-free, artfully complex productions typically serve one basic objective. “My goal is to have the product sound like it wasn’t made in the computer,” he says. “Whatever you’re doing with the music, you have to keep an ear out for things that stay true to rock and roll, and sound a little bit off the rails.” www.eqmag.com FEBRUARY 2009 EQ 9 http://www.eqmag.com
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