Simon Phillips On Drum Tuning

Here's a terrific video where the great Simon Phillips (Jeff Beck, The Who, Toto, Eric Clapton, and many more) shows legendary engineer Alan Parsons some tips and tricks for drum tuning. This is one of the most insightful interviews on drum sounds ever.

You'll never look at a paint can the same after watching this video.

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The Making Of Pink Floyd's "Money"

Here's something that I posted about 3 years ago but thought it would be fun again for those new readers that haven't seen it before. It's an excellent video on the making of Pink Floyd's "Money," and it's still pretty cool.  There are lot of interesting things illustrated here:

1) Old fashioned tape loops. Yes, in the days before digital, this is how it was done (I get nostalgic looking at the MCI 4 track).

2) Track layering. You can plainly hear how there's usually a lot more going on in a record than what seems apparent. The numerous guitar tracks are a great example here.

3) The use of of effects. Effects are used to place a track in an artificial acoustic space and you especially can hear how it works very well here when Alan Parsons (the engineer for the session) adds the effects in on the vocals, then cuts them off during the bridge.

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