Backstage Spotlight™
November 2003 Recording Engineer Obie
O'Brien - Page 4
MBADC: When we last spoke, you had said for the Crush tour you were
going to bring professional recording equipment out on the road and do Front of House
through that. Is that what you ended up doing?
Obie: Well, I took a lot of studio gear out, because that’s all I know. I mean, I
took Neumann microphones for the drums just like I do in the studio; I tried to make the
transition of using the mics that I use in the studio out on the road. Some worked, some
didn’t. I took reverbs that I use in the studio, I took compressors that I used in
the studio which I really liked, you know? So I had to have a reference, and the only
reference is that gear.
And the guys with the sound company would say hey, why don’t you put that R3M972
microphone up and I’d go, "I don’t even know what that is!" He would
show it to me and I’d go, "I don’t even like the way it looks!" So
I’m still telling the guy, "I want that AKG, the one that looks like an electric
razor, that’s the one I want up." So, some of it worked, some of it didn’t,
and the stuff that didn’t I changed out. I might have gone a show or two longer than
I should have with it, but I was just trying to dial it in. But some of the stuff
doesn’t dial in because it doesn’t work well in the live venue. There’s too
much volume, there’s too much leakage, whatever the problem is.
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