The Depot American Diner
5840 W. Roosevelt

Some of the best diner food in Chicago. Everything is homemade. Great soups, pot roast sandwiches, blue plate specials, phosphates, egg creams and biscuits and gravy on the weekends.

What exactly is the attachment that is used at Electrical to attach a second microphone to a mic stand for mic'ing the bottom head of a tom? It looks like a small boom arm or something that attaches to the stand so you can attach both your top and bottom head mics to one stand. This seems like a ...

I bought a really old beyer M260 off eBay. I really like it as a mono drum overhead. I also use it for vocals, though in this application it may need a little high end EQ boost. Mine started to develop a fuzzy distortion at high volumes. I sent it to a gentleman named Mark Fuksman who hangs out over ...

They are extremely rare, but if you find one they are usually quite inexpensive because nobody knows about them:
The Biamp Legend
I just got one of these consoles and they have discrete, four transistor preamps and sound good. Because it was made by Biamp, everyone thinks it's crap. It is an ...

Jennie Benford from Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops
Catherine Irving from Freakwater (her record "cut yourself a switch" is great)
Rennie Sparks from The Handsome Family writes some great lyrics, though Brett Sparks sings them.
Gillian Welch is amazing
Scout Niblett
Peaches had been known to ...

A lot of folks are using the Evans HD dry heads, as mentioned several times already. My experience confirms that if you want a dry snare sound these really do work. They record really well too. If your only complaint about your snare is it has too much ring, I'd definitely try using one of these ...

I am happy that the Pixies are "cashing in". I hope they make a shit load of money and sell tons of their old records. I hope that lots of 14 year old girls and boys see the show and are inspired to play music.

Also, usually when I have listened to "Gigantic" or lots of other Pixies songs I often ...

I've had good luck recording drums with 3 mics. In fact, I've often been more satisfied doing it that way then with 12. Check out these MP3s:
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These were recorded with three mics on the drums. In front of the kit was a ribbon mic (Oktava ML-52), about 3 feet out, 2 feet high. Just 6 or 8 inches ...

Nazareth's "Hair of the Dog" is a phenomenal album. It's easy for people to laugh off bands like Nazareth, but if you actually listen to the whole record I think you would be surprised by the emotional depth and earnestness of it as well as their adept butt rock stylings. The Scotts rock. Also ...

The Maddox Brothers & Rose "The Hoot-Owl Melody"