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Vance at
Powell
Jack has a great Hammond B-3...
actually, it's a super-hopped up A-100,
the red one from the White Stripes. He's
got a great piano, a Wurlitzer, a couple
Moogs, a real Mellotron.
For the piano on this record, did
you get one track or two?
Two, usually. He has a Steinway upright and he puts these weird Russian ribbon mics up behind it. I don't know what
they are, but they sound really good.
There is one song on the album that's
essentially a piano song, and we tried
to get the piano to sound as much like
a grand piano as possible. So I boosted
the low end and put a little plate reverb
on it. Then I kept the panning of the mics
sort of 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock.
How about the organ tracks with
the Leslie cabinet-did you pan
those super-wide, or more mono?
It depends on the track.
Was the Leslie miked with three
mics, say, stereo top and mono
bottom?
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Yes, but they always came to me already
blended to stereo, because I taught my assistant correctly. It irritates me to no end
when I get three channels of Leslie! [laughs]
It also irritates me when people mic
the horn on opposite ends at 180º. Only
one side of the horn works-the other
side is plugged shut, and just there for
weight balance. So if you mic it that way,
it comes at you and goes away really irritatingly... [Vance hums a tone and cuts
it off, and repeats to demonstrate]
I usually put the mics in the opening
on the back side of the cabinet, at about
a 90º angle. That way, if you need to
put it in mono, it still works.
Jack White albums in general have a grit or a distortion to
them; did you add any of that
during mixdown?
Anything else we should know
about this record, that I haven't
asked about?
Everyone was very focused, it's very much
a band record. Everyone had an equal say,
and everybody had to agree. It's been ten
years since the last record-everyone has
had kids and gotten married and grown up
[laughs], you know what I mean?
There is a song that Brendan sings
that to me personally is just wonderful-
kinda one of the best songs I have ever
heard-and Jack has a song that closes
the record that is just fantastic.
The song writing is great, the performance is great. This is a very cool record, I think people will really dig it.
Thanks, Vance. We can't wait!
No, none, that was all done in tracking.
Did you do any 2-bus processing?
I have an API 2500 bus compressor
that I really like for glue and a Mäag
EQ4M mastering EQ.
Help Us Stranger Album Cover
Thank you, Paul.
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Focal Trio11 Be
Eric Loomis—From live sound to Ivy Hall
Test Tones & Metering
Handy Hardware
Cool Controllers
Stellar Soundware
First Look: KRK Systems ROKIT 5 G4
Vance Powell on mixing The Raconteurs' Help Us Stranger
Steinberg Cubase 10
Plug-In Outlet: Puremagnetik Plug-ins
Lynx Studio Technology Aurora(n)
Studio 101. Part 17: Studio controllers
Readers’ Tracks
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