If you plan to buy only one mike, get one designed for use on a kick drum. Take this mike with you to every gig—even if you don’t think you’ll need it. As stage volume rises, the kick is the first part of the drum set to sonically disappear. Much of this is physical, as...
“Recording technology fascinated my father,” said Bill Putnam, Jr. “But at the end of the day, it was just a tool to get to a musical performance. He always said musicians were his favorite people. His love of the technology rubbed off on me first, but it was the music that was...