Foo Fighters Return To Essentials With API For Grammy-winning Album.

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Feb 24, 2012 4:02 PM, By Jack Kontney

Foo Fighters took home 5 small bullion gramophones at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, unconditional the prestigious Best Rock Album and Best Rock Performance honors. The group's Wasting Light manuscript was constructed wholly using a 32-channel analog API 1608 console by Automated Processes, Inc. Working with operative James Brown and writer Butch Vig, the rope went back to basics, switching off the computers and tracking and blending to fasten around the all-analog API console.

Wasting Light debuted at number a on the U.S. Billboard 200 map out in April 2011 with initial week sales of more than 235,000 copies.

"The API sound is great for rock," mentioned Vig, who had final worked with Grohl on Nirvana's Nevermind manuscript two decades ago. "We gathering the 1608 and colored the manuscript with the gratifying sound of its pointed distortion."

Less than a year later, the manuscript done a washed brush of every leading stone difficulty at the Grammy Awards.

At Brown's request, the API 1608's enlargement slots had been given with sixteen API 550A three-band EQs, 8 API 550b four-band EQs and 8 560 striking EQs previous to recording.

"The 1608 had a way of gelling the mixes," Brown said. "I can't precisely put my finger on because or how, but the reality of it was flattering undeniable."

Nominated in a complete of 6 categories, Foo Fighters won for Rock Song: ("Walk"), Rock Album, Rock Performance, Hard Rock/Metal Performance ("White Limo"), and Long Form Music Video for "Foo Fighters: Back and Forth." Band personality Dave Grohl maybe most appropriate summed up the group's perspective toward the imaginative routine and welcome of analog in his acceptance for Best Rock Performance. His full debate follows:

"This is a great honor, because this record was a special record for the band," Grohl said." Rather than go to the most appropriate college of music in the world down the lane in Hollywood and rsther than than use all of the fanciest computers that allowance can buy, you done this a in my garage with a few microphones and a fasten machine

"To me this endowment means a lot because it shows that the human component of music is what's important. Singing in to a microphone and learning to fool around an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most critical thing for people to do.

"It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding surely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head]."