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Jakob Herrmann is a producer and the owner of Top Floor Studios. He’s worked with DarkTranquility, Amaranthe, Evergrey, and many others.
Jakob Herrmann is a producer and the owner of Top Floor Studios. He’s worked with DarkTranquility, Amaranthe, Evergrey, and many others. He joined Eyal Levi to answer some questions from the URM Discord community.
On this episode:
3:42 - Capturing room mics on bass and guitar
8:02 - The line between something that’s technically good and the band’s message
19:00 - Finding the right tones with doubling and overdubbing
29:40 - How to record bedroom vocals
37:45 - Working with new mixers or producers
45:36 - Jakob’s preferred drum heads, cymbals, and bass and guitar strings
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