Home / Music / How Glyn Johns captured Charlie Watts’ drum sound on 'Honky Tonk Women'Music glyn-johns charlie-watts honky-tonk-women rolling-stonesHow Glyn Johns captured Charlie Watts’ drum sound on 'Honky Tonk Women'The secret to that crackling, dry snare and thumping kick wasn’t a dozen mics. Glyn Johns placed a single Neumann U67 condenser microphone about six Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related Notes102 Edith Grove: How a Squalid Chelsea Flat Forged The Rolling Stones2000 Light Years from Home and the Stones' Space-Age Psychedelia‘A Bigger Bang’: A Late-Career Highlight That Doesn’t Reach the 70s PeakA Bigger Bang on 180g Vinyl – How the 2016 Reissue Fixed the CD’s Loudness ProblemA Bigger Bang's Critical Reception: Praised as a Return to Form, but Some Called It FormulaicExploreThe Roborock S8 earns a 4/5 for battery — covers large homes in one runThe Roomba Combo Essential is built for small-to-medium homesThe Shark HydroVac MessMaster is for daily spills, not deep cleaningThe Shark Matrix Plus gets 60-90 minutes — average homes, one charge120 minutes on Quiet Mode — enough for a 1,200-square-foot main floorPrevious How Glyn Johns Used a Stairwell to Record the Eerie Vocal on 'Gimme Shelter'Next How Glyn Johns Captured Charlie Watts' Drums on Beggars Banquet with Room Mics at Olympic Studios