Moriarty Recording

"It's the very naive producer who works only on optimum systems." -Brian Eno

It's unlikely whoever is buying your records has anything better than an average hi-fi, boombox, car stereo, or ipod. I'd bet they don't have studio monitors.

Recording & mixing solely on studio monitors is foolish. All that low end in the guitar? It's useless in the small speakers. It's just taking up frequencies the bass or drums or organs or tenor instruments can occupy. You have to be ruthless in cutting away useless frequencies so the record is loud & jumps out of all speakers. Make the record sound outstanding on little crap speakers since that's where most people will hear it. I've found when I do this

Here's a film from Pitchfork about Bill & Man Man making Rabbit Habits last Summer.

Everyone, meet Chris Radwanski. Chris is now my manager and will be attending to all scheduling, information, costs, negotiations, and generally everything to make sure clients & I are free to focus on making records. Yes, I'll still be completely affordable. This is Philly. But, I want to move into project rates instead of daily rates so we're not rushing and records get the time they deserve. Chris also manages Drink Up Buttercup and his email address is in the upper right. And he's about to move to South Philly. So if you're in south philly and meet someone named Chris it might be him.

A promotion! Marc Snyder, my assistant many of you know, will be engineering many records all summer and taking the enviable(?) job of managing the American Diamond studio. He'll be scheduling all studio visits & sessions, letting you back in to retrieve your skateboard, fitting Dr. Dog & all their projects, me & all my projects and his own work into one room's calendar.

I just listened to a great program on the newly heard recordings of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented the phonautograph.