Jason Bateman

That was your dad?

And your dad would sit in the room with the engineer right next to the board, and he had a 416, a shotgun mic, and he was the first guy to do that in that way.

Is that right?

Was he... Because he was actually in real time telling the guy how to modulate his voice and do all the EQ and stuff.

Right.

Willie likes that.

Willie does a little of that.

Not in the booth, not anymore.

But I will say that, like, and then I'll get out of the weeds on this.

So traditionally, all the voiceover guys, especially in New York, where a lot of it used to be done back in the day, everybody used the mic that's a very common, that I do have over here, and what we refer to as an 87, a U87, and it's a great microphone.

Oh, thanks.

Of course.

Keep going, Andy.

Your dad changed that by using that shotgun mic, and he forever changed, and it became the West Coast microphone.

So when I would come out here and go to a recording studio, they'd always have a shotgun mic, and it was because of your dad that that became the standard out here.

Did it strike you as being like a peculiar thing for your dad to do?

I can say from my own experience, and I ask this because I say to my kids sometimes, like, it's...

when they do stuff or I do stuff or they come in a work-related environment, I'm like, it's weird, right?

That this is what you're... Because it's weird to me if my dad had done it.

And I sort of acknowledge it.