Alright drum dudes, need some advice. My drummer has a nice 14x6.5 Pearl Master birch snare, which is a gorgeous piece and sounds really good. It definitely has a bit of trouble cutting on denser rock mixes though, so I got a 14x5 Black Beauty, which cuts amazingly. My question for the cognoscenti though, is it worth having a Supraphonic on hand as well? Thinking for that old meaty snare sound.
I still haven't totally gotten over the history of absolute click bait boomer yelling at cloud tripe that was Rick's Youtube channel, but I have to admit, he has pulled off probably the two most consequential interviews for audio production ever in Andy Wallace and Brendan O'Brien. And both were really well done and thoughtful. Andy Wallace in particular was a ridiculous score as he was a total enigma for being arguably the most important mixing engineer in history along with Clearmountain. His wiki page was like one paragraph lol. And I think the O'Brien interview may be one of the only ones he has ever given? I can't think of two guys that informed how I related to music more than these two. Along with the Gilmour interview, I really think Rick has done some good stuff and hopefully he sticks to this as I think it's really valuable stuff.