Lewis said the effort involved a mountain of equipment. “We set up maybe 20 microphones in Alicia Keys’s studio and brought down probably 20 snare drums and 20 kick drums, and we just started capturing everything and comparing and fine-tuning and adjusting,” he explained on the phone. This analytical bent came early to Wissing, who was raised in a music-friendly family — his great-grandfather, Clarence Stout, was a songwriter and drummer — in Bloomington, Ind. That was kind of the first time I understood that stuff.”After graduating from Indiana University, Wissing spent 13 years crisscrossing the country with the band Johnny Socko. When that project ended and he had moved to Hoboken, he reconnected with Lewis, who had produced the group’s last studio album, and the two men became regular collaborators.

Source: New York Times October 06, 2020 17:37 UTC