Thanks for doing this Butch! Been wanting to get you on here for a long time! kfhkh

1984: Killdozer - Snakeboy 1985: Killdozer - 12 Point Buck 1987: Killdozer - Little Baby Buntin' 1988: Die Kreuzen - Century...

Hey Butch! Thanks so much for taking the time to answer some questions. I have always been enthralled with Nevermind's...

Many thanks for doing the Q&A Butch. Any chance you could post some pics of your home studio?

Hey Butch! Big big fan of your work as a musician and as a producer/engineer. I am also a HUGE FAN of Alan Moulder and...

one of my top 3 albums for 2008 so firstly, congratulations on a great record! hoping you can shed some light on the recording...

Hi, Butch. Thank you very much for being available to answer some questions from the gang. I wonder if you follow a certain...

Hey Butch-just wondering how much you still track analog. On the last Green Day album I read you guys did drums and bass to tape....

Hi Butch, thanks for doing this. Big fan for a long time! I love both your very produced (Garbage) and underproduced albums...

Hi, Thanks for doing this. Did you use Tac Scorpion for the first Nirvana record? What's your opinion of the console? Best...

I was wondering what your thoughts/decision making process on tracking bands together versus individual parts (drums first, then...

Whenever I am doing something inspired but Siamese Dream I try and use multiple cabinets, heads... mesa boogie's, fender...

Butch, You've mentioned the Akai sampler several times. You even mentioned running vocals through one. Was this to tweak...

I read in some of your posts that you had an api Lunchbox that you brought to sessions with you over the years . What did you...

Hi Butch, During your career, have you ever had a "ah-ha" moment where your mixes jumped to a new level? If so,...

You clearly have vast experience with every tool of the trade. Have you always felt you had what you needed in front of you, or...

Hey Butch, I was recording some vocals a couple of days ago for a deathmetal/hardcore band and was thinking at almost every...

Hi Butch! As a big fan of your work, I wanted to know your thoughts on choosing mix engineers for the records you produce, and...

You may already know this, but BartCop's most recent rants - Political Humor and Commentary ends every single issue with a...

Thanks for doing this Q&A, Butch, it's been great reading. I was wondering what you do when a project has serious problems...

Thanks so much for doing this! So on Siamese Dream, the song "Spaceboy" has mellotron strings throughout it, which...

Hello Butch, Thank you very much for taking the time to answer so many great questions on the site. I have had a great time...

Butch, In context to the longer projects you've done. Do you have any tips on how to keep a fresh sense of perspective...

Way before Nevermind and Garbage, you and Duke Erikson were in two cult-Midwestern bands, and along with Steve Marker engineering...

Butch, Thanks for doing this! You've made some of my favorite albums of all time, especially the Garbage albums. Which leads me...

What are your favorite plugins and outboard analog gear?

How do you get the performance you want out of your vocalists? Are there techniques you use to get them in the right head space...

Senior Vig, from wikipedia: "Vig stated that Garbage was considering mid-2008 to begin making a fifth album, saying,...

Hi there, Mr. Vig. You've obviously created quite a legacy, evidence by everyone who cites your work as a major influence on...

Looking through the lists of gear you and your associated engineers use, I can't help but notice condensers (especially LDCs)...

I know Chris Dugen said Green Day main rhythm parts were tracked twice per side, each time with a different guitar/amp combo....

Hi Butch, How do you back up/archive your finished digital media(audio) projects for the long term? Do think about ways to...

Butch, once again, thanks for doing this Q&A. It's truly an honor to have this sort of access to such a great, renowned...

Hi Butch, It has been docmented that the band first tried recording Somthing In The Way as a band. Did the band try...

I was fairly obsessed with Nirvana years ago and had a collection of dubbed tapes of their unreleased songs, years before the box...

Butch its an honor.. I wonder if you could say a few words about the vertical extrapolator, is it real? if so, what is its...

Butch, Can you walk us through behind the scenes stuff such as how you hook up with a band, how their ideas are represented to...

Hi Butch. I am a big fan of your work with Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Sonic Youth. I fell off the "band"wagon when...

Hey Butch, Billy and Mike!! Thank you very much for doing this and special thanks to Gearslutz.com for making it...

I would like to know what effect/effects were used on this snare? It's very big, but still clear and punchy. All in, what's the...

If you were working in the biz in the 1960s what would you have chosen to do? Producer? Engineer? Band? Songwriter?

Welcome, Butch. Many of us do indeed appreciate your work. Now-a-days it seems like tons of young wanna-be artists are calling...

Hi Butch Huge fan of your work. I'd like to know your thoughts around quantizing drums in protools. Is this something you tend...

Hi i was at smart back in 93 doing some recording with friends what was the enormous console with the motorized faders upstairs...

heya butch and everyone, i was just wondering if you have ever worked with an unknown or up and coming band and decided during...

butch, i really enjoyed your work with garbage and saw you guys live a few times, including the memorable 1999 tibetan freedom...

Thanks for this. This is awesome. Out of every guest mod that's been on here, yours are the productions that have inspired me...

Hey Butch! Thanks for the years of great listening and pages of super cool inside info! I've been battling with sibilance...

Hi Butch I'm a big fan of "This Perfect World" by Freedy Johnston. That tenor of his is something special. Any...

First of all, I can't overstate how much I love Garbage. Every second of every track you've done (including/especially b-sides)...

Can you tell us a bit about making this album? It's very raw but in a way that still sounds musical. On the technical side,...

Hi Butch, first of all I just want to say thank you for taking the time to answer questions, it's a real honor. I would like to...