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Does anyone know what methods were used by Martin Hannett to record drums for Joy Division / early New Order?
It seems he used a lot of synthesised drums but does anyone know if he recorded the kit as a whole or as sepearate drums because the drum sounds are quite isolated.
Cheers
Jim
He stuck Steve Morris on the fookin roof and left him there - if 24HPP is anything to go by... 
apparently very seperated, steve claims that he would only let him hit one drum for each take on some tracks, recording each in complete isolation, he used one of the first digital delays (can't remember the name) at a very fast rate so that it didn't really repeat but altered the tone of the sound due to the phasing effect, I should think he'll have compressed them to buggery and added other effects too.
Have a read of who killed martin hannett for a bit of an insight, but how true some of that is is very debatable, due to being written by someone who was off his face most of the time, as was hanett himself, if he was still alive I doubt he could tell you what he did, but I'm sure others on here could tell you a lot more than I can.
I think the delay he used was an AMS digital delay, one of the first to use it apparently. http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/cargo_studios_joy_division_martin_hannett.html
I'm doing a study of Hannetts work at the moment, in my final year at university, its very interesting. Anyone got any idea what microphones he would have used?
Cheers
My mate Chris works at the AMS Neve factory in Burnley where Hannett used to make late-night trips to pick up the latest (dodgy) digital processing gear from America.
I also met a bloke in 1991 when I was on a job-centre course at Fallover 24 studios in Hulme, he said himself, Hannett and Morris used to walk around Manchester with a tape recorder , collecting "found sounds" for use later in the studio.
Rob
Nice one, you reckon your mate will have any information about what other equipment he used to use?
Thanks for the input.
