" ... emulators in a military case, so I have been familiar with Geoff's stuff for a while. I've got an old Drawmer 1960, some Tony Larkin stuff, a Coles ribbon mic. I use a 414 CL2 for almost everything, vocals. It takes the ... "
" ... wherever you get it. Yeah, it's more, "I'll take it wherever I can get it." Actually, the typical compressors were Drawmer compressors 'cause they were the kind of studios that were very cheap. They might have one good compressor. But we ... the sound I've used a lot. We have a Manley compressor, one of those variable MU ones and a Drawmer 1960 compressor, which I like a lot. Quite a lot of Drawmer compressors 'cause I used to love Drawmer stuff. I ... "
" ... even on the upright bass. What preamp did you use? I've had really good luck with cheap microphones and my Drawmer 1960 compressor. It's a hybrid of IC- based preamps and some tube gain stages, and I love it. It's just so ... "
" ... like to run through compressors going in? Okay, let's take vocals. Generally, as little compression as possible. I've got a Drawmer 1960 Valve Compressor, and that's got mic preamps on it which are very good and I tend to use those first ... "
" ... like that? A lot of the times we'll take, say, the stereo drum group, and we'll run that through the Drawmer, the 1960. That's always a nice one. Maybe if something needs more gain, we'll run it through a couple of the Neve ... "
" ... another and it turned into the S37SM, which was actually the first of the Mercenary edition. So what about the Drawmer 1969? I was doing an album with this producer who swore that the original Drawmer 1960 shit ice cream, and I just swore that it was shit. You may have noticed I may not be bashful ... "
" ... easier than a mouse. We've got a clean board; a Mackie 24 by 8 but we have 16 channels of Drawmer 1960 mic pres. Everything goes through the Drawmers. Where did you score those? Through this place in Indiana called Sweetwater. Yeah, ... "
" ... front end and a tube based gain reduction circuit and transformer balanced output. We have other hybrid compressors like the Drawmer 1960. Probably the most exciting compressor to come out in years is the Joe Meek stereo compressor, which we have. That's ... "
" ... really really cool and a bunch of tube vintage compressors... Ahhh, which ones? UREI LA 4 and 1176's and a Drawmer 1960... and a lot of ADR stereo compressors and some great reverbs like the EMT plate, the Lexicon 224 and PCN ... "
