If the microphone is choked up tight on the speaker, you get a lot more low-frequency energy Instead Albini trusted his ears with mic placement in the studios he worked in – including his own ...

Steve Albini’s last session at Electrical Audio ... like it’s gone through a recording process or it’s coming out of speakers. You can feel the sound that he records.” ...

Steve Albini ... to make that come across the speakers to someone listening at home.” A gifted musician himself, Albini was also the front man of seminal noise rock band Shellac and punk ...

One of the most important figures in shaping the sounds the '80s and '90s has died. Steve Albini fronted the bands Big Black and Shellac and engineered albums for Nirvana, the Pixies and PJ Harvey.

PJ Harvey paid tribute to Steve Albini, who she recorded her acclaimed ... gone through a recording process or it’s coming out of speakers. You can feel the sound he records, and that is why ...