10.11.06
hey.
i feel like a slacker. i should've done this post a week ago.
we went into inner ear last week. last wednesday. instead of playing tuesday night we spent the time planning out the session in the form of a to-do list and loose schedule, and then we drank beers and drew pictures. I think it was our best studio day in at least a year. We started by tracking acoustic guitar. For david's acoustic double guitar in blood infection the signal chain went neumann M149-UA LA610 in limit mode-tape. GP9 at +6/250, 15 ips. all of our tapes are set up like that. I then went in to do acoustic guitar tracks for Pet Heart, removing the limiter from the signal chain. This whole setup worked extraordinarily well for the strummy stuff being recorded. We had not much trouble with the guitar being too dark (we had just restrung it) and with a tiny boost of like 1/2 DB at 7K, it sounded about as realistic as i wanted it to.
We then recorded some auxilliary percussion through the milab VIP-50 (in omni)into the UA LA-610. i like that mic because it tends to take some of the annoying body out of percussion stuff that you really just want to be a gesture anyway, and the UA box kept things pretty natural. Tambourine (doubled zach and david simultaneously) and maracas (alex david and zach all together) for pet heart, and i did sleigh bells on blood infection.
i then did some electric guitar on blood infection, this line that i've wanted to put down for months but didn't take the opportunity until then. my 69 SG junior into this weird little fender "super champ" i think it was, to SM 57, into the vintech 1272, to tape. yum. i doubled my part.
By that point dexter had arrived with his drums to play in the chorus bits of blood infection. so we set up his drums in the live area of the room. I used a beyer M88 dynamic mic low over the kit, kind of at ear level over the snare and kind of pointed at the kick. That went into the 1272, and then into the manley vari-mu in limit mode. Totally amazing. After a couple of takes i realized that the milab was still plugged in and in omni in the parlor area, so i patched that into the adjacent track (LA-610 in limit mode, getting kind of killed) and it really aided in opening up the room a bit. The delay between the two mics was so noticeably long that i wasn't concerned at all about phase issues. Dex totally killed the part after he settled in.
then bass! it was awesome to have alex just stand and play in the control room and listen really loud through the big monitors. we used this mysterious black p-bass from the guitar closet and ran him into the 610 with some low end boost eq and the comp/limit section was in compress, maybe reducing like 4-6 db. my mind wasn't totally blown on the sound but it sounded like a bass and the performance was totally dope so i'm sure it will be fine come mix time. He tracked his stuff for the two songs in a matter of 20 minutes. awesome.
the last thing of the night we decided to wait on so i could get real crazy and not have to worry about anything but playing. i borrowed chad's tone king and used my zvex SHO as well as my ibanez AD9 and did this freakout thing for the big part in blood infection. i was happy with my 4th or 5th take and we kept it and cleaned up.
hell of a day.
i feel like a slacker. i should've done this post a week ago.
we went into inner ear last week. last wednesday. instead of playing tuesday night we spent the time planning out the session in the form of a to-do list and loose schedule, and then we drank beers and drew pictures. I think it was our best studio day in at least a year. We started by tracking acoustic guitar. For david's acoustic double guitar in blood infection the signal chain went neumann M149-UA LA610 in limit mode-tape. GP9 at +6/250, 15 ips. all of our tapes are set up like that. I then went in to do acoustic guitar tracks for Pet Heart, removing the limiter from the signal chain. This whole setup worked extraordinarily well for the strummy stuff being recorded. We had not much trouble with the guitar being too dark (we had just restrung it) and with a tiny boost of like 1/2 DB at 7K, it sounded about as realistic as i wanted it to.
We then recorded some auxilliary percussion through the milab VIP-50 (in omni)into the UA LA-610. i like that mic because it tends to take some of the annoying body out of percussion stuff that you really just want to be a gesture anyway, and the UA box kept things pretty natural. Tambourine (doubled zach and david simultaneously) and maracas (alex david and zach all together) for pet heart, and i did sleigh bells on blood infection.
i then did some electric guitar on blood infection, this line that i've wanted to put down for months but didn't take the opportunity until then. my 69 SG junior into this weird little fender "super champ" i think it was, to SM 57, into the vintech 1272, to tape. yum. i doubled my part.
By that point dexter had arrived with his drums to play in the chorus bits of blood infection. so we set up his drums in the live area of the room. I used a beyer M88 dynamic mic low over the kit, kind of at ear level over the snare and kind of pointed at the kick. That went into the 1272, and then into the manley vari-mu in limit mode. Totally amazing. After a couple of takes i realized that the milab was still plugged in and in omni in the parlor area, so i patched that into the adjacent track (LA-610 in limit mode, getting kind of killed) and it really aided in opening up the room a bit. The delay between the two mics was so noticeably long that i wasn't concerned at all about phase issues. Dex totally killed the part after he settled in.
then bass! it was awesome to have alex just stand and play in the control room and listen really loud through the big monitors. we used this mysterious black p-bass from the guitar closet and ran him into the 610 with some low end boost eq and the comp/limit section was in compress, maybe reducing like 4-6 db. my mind wasn't totally blown on the sound but it sounded like a bass and the performance was totally dope so i'm sure it will be fine come mix time. He tracked his stuff for the two songs in a matter of 20 minutes. awesome.
the last thing of the night we decided to wait on so i could get real crazy and not have to worry about anything but playing. i borrowed chad's tone king and used my zvex SHO as well as my ibanez AD9 and did this freakout thing for the big part in blood infection. i was happy with my 4th or 5th take and we kept it and cleaned up.
hell of a day.
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