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STAND BY YOUR LAN The iconic drum sound on Led Zeppelin’s "When the Levee Breaks" was recorded by placing John Bonham’s drum kit at the bottom of a three-story stairwell in Headley Grange in 1971. Engineer Andy Johns hung two Beyerdynamic M160 microphones on the first-floor landing, capturing natural room reverb, then compressed them heavily through a Helios console and a Binson Echorec delay unit to create the massive, "cave-like" sound.
The iconic drum sound on Led Zeppelin’s "When the Levee Breaks" was recorded by placing John Bonham’s drum kit at the bottom of a three-story stairwell in Headley Grange in 1971. Engineer Andy Johns hung two Beyerdynamic M160 microphones on the first-floor landing, capturing natural room reverb, then compressed them heavily through a Helios console and a Binson Echorec delay unit to create the massive, "cave-like" sound.
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