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Great that this thread has come up again. I have experimented with the early 70s sound for more than a year and have kind of perfected it. It has, in fact, caused me to sell all my digital gear and buy a Studer multitrack as well as a 1/4" Telefunken stereo R2R. However, this is just the icing on the cake - the sound is almost COMPLETELY in the instruments used and how they are played.
Experiment with sparse micing (e.g. mono OH, kick and snare, or for a mid-70s sound, reso heads off toms and kick and miced from just inside the shell), muffling (gaffer tape and tissue paper on Ambassador heads, thick blanket in kick), and it's also important to leave some distance between mics and drums.
A run-of-the-mill mic collection will suffice, but careful with the treble content when recording to digital - there is hardly anything in the "air" department on early 70s recordings.
Cheers,
Recky
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