Dr. Dog - "Fat Dog"

Step inside Southern Grooves in Memphis, Tennessee as Grammy-winning engineer Matt Ross-Spang mixes "Fat Dog" by Dr. Dog. The band recorded the album themselves in a cabin on a 1-inch 8-track tape machine, then brought it to Matt with one request: keep the vibe. Across this series, Matt shows how he enhanced the band's hazy, Super 8 aesthetic instead of polishing it away, with the band right there in the room making decisions alongside him. You'll see him set the record's entire tonal direction with Pultecs on the 2-buss before touching a single track, tame phase and time relationships between drum mics, build character with SansAmp and Peavey parallels, shape unconventional percussion like mouth drums and agogo bells, craft vocals with the Andrew Schepps air trick, and print the finished record to half-inch tape. A masterclass in serving the song, the sound, and the artist.