Had another short session with Padraig to finish up his album. The only problem now is stopping myself from making little tweaks as I'm bouncing the songs down.
I did catch some ess-y vocals that I'd missed previously though, and I got a chance to fool around with using the URS CS Pro's de-esser preset (which is easily recreated with Dynamics III or similar - it's pretty much a compressor with a sidechain HPF set somewhere upwards of 4.5khz).
It does a pretty fine job of taming the esses without sucking the bright outta the vocal too much.
That and the uncontrollable urge to add a feedbacking delay outro spacenoise thing to the final song on the album aside, I battled the tweak-lust as manfully as I could.
The record is off to mastering with Golden in the next few weeks, hopefully.
Did attended mixing of the first Rifle Fire Rifle tune last night - I'd gotten the mix into pretty good shape, so it was mostly a case of tweaking a few bits here and there into place. We'll reconvene to finish it up in the next few days. The guys seem excited to be getting a first 'finished product', which is always a nice feeling.
The three Stoat tunes are ready for mix, so as soon as I can make the time, I'll be getting stuck into them too.
It looks like the long-awaited summing mixer shootout will be starting this weekend - a full report will follow!
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Meters are Overrated
Good day out at Beechpark yesterday - Got setup and doing takes by about 2.30
The Stoat boys ended up doing 3 to 5 takes of each of the three songs.
We'd talked about our options for approaching this recording. The boys had used the 'Lego method' on their last album (as in overdubbing things bit by bit), so they wanted to go a different direction this time around. Through recording themselves in their rehearsal room, they've ended up most comfortable with that scenario, so we set them all up in the main room at Beechpark with low gobos between the amps and the kit.
The resulting bleed is grand and manageable, and we got the live takes done pretty quick with that setup - I think we were overdubbing before 5.30.
Pretty decent drum sound, I think. A bit of a ringy snare situation, which we damped right down for one song where it suited. I'd done a snare preamp shootout the day before, which the Daking had come out of quite well. I think the higher apparent loudness I was hearing was from some nice saturation that you can get into with this pre - a little gets you some nice snappy bite , and winding it up some more gets into fun full on distortion.
Drum setup :
Snare - Beta57 >> Daking pre >> Daking compressor
Snare - B&K 4006 >> GML
Kick in - RE20 >> Vintech
Kick Out E49 >> Vintech
OHs - Coles >> Neve 1084 (little bit of high shelf at 10khz)
Room - M160s >> ISA115 >> Chandler limiter
421/441 on toms, 414s on hat/ride (which I still don't think I'll use).
RE20 on bass and a mix or 122s and M88/Beta 57 on guitars.
Moved on then to some guitar dubs, doubling some parts and adding others.
Cormac did some piano, then we did vocals.
Tried them in the control room with John listening back over the monitors. Not bad.
Those were done with an SM7 into an LA2a, which suited his voice pretty well. Compared it to the Elux 251, which was a bit too clean and beefy. Both were into the 1084s.
We got a few takes done of two songs, but around 11.30 John's voice gave up on him, so we're going to finish vocals later on in the week.
Next up is Hounds on Tuesday in Beechpark, which is gonna rock.
The Stoat boys ended up doing 3 to 5 takes of each of the three songs.
We'd talked about our options for approaching this recording. The boys had used the 'Lego method' on their last album (as in overdubbing things bit by bit), so they wanted to go a different direction this time around. Through recording themselves in their rehearsal room, they've ended up most comfortable with that scenario, so we set them all up in the main room at Beechpark with low gobos between the amps and the kit.
The resulting bleed is grand and manageable, and we got the live takes done pretty quick with that setup - I think we were overdubbing before 5.30.
Pretty decent drum sound, I think. A bit of a ringy snare situation, which we damped right down for one song where it suited. I'd done a snare preamp shootout the day before, which the Daking had come out of quite well. I think the higher apparent loudness I was hearing was from some nice saturation that you can get into with this pre - a little gets you some nice snappy bite , and winding it up some more gets into fun full on distortion.
Drum setup :
Snare - Beta57 >> Daking pre >> Daking compressor
Snare - B&K 4006 >> GML
Kick in - RE20 >> Vintech
Kick Out E49 >> Vintech
OHs - Coles >> Neve 1084 (little bit of high shelf at 10khz)
Room - M160s >> ISA115 >> Chandler limiter
421/441 on toms, 414s on hat/ride (which I still don't think I'll use).
RE20 on bass and a mix or 122s and M88/Beta 57 on guitars.
Moved on then to some guitar dubs, doubling some parts and adding others.
Cormac did some piano, then we did vocals.
Tried them in the control room with John listening back over the monitors. Not bad.
Those were done with an SM7 into an LA2a, which suited his voice pretty well. Compared it to the Elux 251, which was a bit too clean and beefy. Both were into the 1084s.
We got a few takes done of two songs, but around 11.30 John's voice gave up on him, so we're going to finish vocals later on in the week.
Next up is Hounds on Tuesday in Beechpark, which is gonna rock.
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