MWTM Q&A #19 - Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake 

The Latin Playboys debut was their finest work of art.

That Suzanne Vega record is underrated. Unbelievable production and engineering. Beatles level sonic magic.

What Mitchell says about having a generous spirit is really amazing and true! Thx!

I still listen to and love those Los Lobos albums.

Informative & well produced. It would be so cool to do an album with these guys, or even spend a day looking over the shoulder of Tchad Blake, watching him work!

This was very inspiring, about as candid as you can get, and a hat's off to the guys for being so down-to-earth! Bravo!

I love how Tchad's memory on equipment is hazy. It’s refreshing especially for someone who can’t remember model numbers.

I remember in music school in the late 90s, my mixing professor said these guys were his absolute favorite producers/engineers. I never got into the stuff he played of theirs really but their body of work is definitely interesting and unique.

I wish there were more interviews floating around with the two of them together. I only became aware of Froom/Blake a couple of years back when I suddenly realized that they had produced/engineered about half of my top 20 favorite albums. Far too great a percentage for it to be pure coincidence.... They clearly tapped into something that resonates with me deeply.

Best solution for Acoustic guitar and Vocal recording. Use Ribbons, their null point in the fig 8 has excellent rejection. The vocal mics null would be aimed at the guitar and guitar mics null aimed at the vocal.

Mildly interesting: Tchad says the binaural head was invented by Fritz Künstkopf. However, Künstkopf is just German for fake head ;)

Man, such a great dudes!

Los Lobos - Little Japan off Colossal Head is the intro

Great information. Thanks for sharing Mitchell & Tchad! =)

Mitchell loves your work with GAMMA and then the Montrose/Froom tour which I saw 3 shows of!! Would love to hear some Ronnie stories and was wondering if there are any recordings of the Montrose/Froom tour

So enlightening. "Be generous" - cool guys!!

I THINK the AKG kuntzkopf (art-head) was created by Fritz Sippl & tested at the Staatsoper

Missy Elliott..... well i did not expect that answer

I guess tchad was sick during the filming of the inside the track series? I totally thought that's what he sounded like all the time. Like he'd been smoking cigarettes for 45 years.

Great as always! Thanks

A golden pair!

cant understand which samples he use. can anybody tell me what tchad says at minute 1:25? want to know which samples does he use..thanks

What's the music in the introduction?

does anybody know the mic he talks about on 4:21? I think it might be the Shure SM81 cause this guys seem like they have watched the video, but a confirmation would be nice ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V77IchqnoR0.html

Sans-amp AKA salt n pepper