Dave Bock interview, part 2 of 2
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Fri, 19 Oct 2007
WHEN A MICROPHONE IS BETTER THAN A ROLEX - part 2 of 2
Interview with DAVE BOCK and KIRSTEN BOCK OF BOCK AUDIO. Recorded on Bock microphones in the living room of Dave and Kirsten Bock.
Bock Microphones are becoming a name that people expect to see in the highest-end recording studios in the World.
Topics:
Dave Jerden, Bill Laswell, rock music click pads on bass drums, MDC, Alice in Chains sounds like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young singing over Black Sabbath, why David Bock and Michael Dean started playing guitar, 1973 Gibson Les Paul signature hollow body guitars, giving the gift of prog rock, Dave Bock’s awesome surround sound McIntosh tube-powered home stereo, Esoteric Audio, Dave Bock on the history of Bock microphones. Kirsten Bock and Dave Bock expound on how the first Bomb record got made at Hyde Street Studios. She talks about The Farm, The Chatterbox, Michael Urbano, Dave Immergluck, Dan Schwartz, John Hyatt, Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn, Liquid Jesus, the power of mixing in mono, how to play power pool. They talk about what’s on Dave’s iPod, George Massenburg, close micing jazz music, Barre Phillips, and the Hit Factory.
From the Clone The Homeless podcast
October 19th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Those mics DO sound great.
October 19th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I KNOW!
They’re creamy.
They sound even better when engineered by a pro and not recorded through a consumer-grade $150 made-in-China mixer!
MWD
October 20th, 2007 at 3:13 am
[...] Part 2 of 2 of this interview. [...]