It Lives!

I'm back on the Blog Wagon, so to speak.

Just finished up a single/7" for Hired Hands with mastering by Richard down in Wav Mastering.
Had a lot of fun recording them in their rehearsal space (a large church hall), a lovely room with nice ambience. In fact, the room was like an extra member of the band - in a good way, luckily.

I even managed to take a pic during the live tracking part of the session, although most of the juicy stuff is obscured - nice big pic here.. PIC.

Drums are hidden between two down n' dirty gobos (tables covered in blankets) with the guitar amps either side (one, a Vox, is visible to the right).
Bass amp is behind the Mac, facing away from the drums.
Drums were SM7 on kick, U87 snare, Royers overhead all into API.
An ATI 8mx2 took care of the other mics - 441s on guitar, SM57 and some MXL mic on bass.
Clarinet, Sax and fiddle overdubs were Royers with a little bit of U87 here and there.
Vocals were mostly SM7.

The next week or so will be mixing the new Land Lovers record at home, with finishing touches back in Nutshed Studios where the album was tracked in a fun but intense 5 days in March.
12 hour days with recuperation via rum leaves little time for sleep :)