Secreting for 7 hours +
Man, went into this project for the long haul, but it was worth it.
Must say things went pretty well. Set up as usual, drums in the living room, guitar cab in the kitchen, bass in the back room. I set up in my bed room with a few doors closed. not bad. Micky's bass amp is a huge ampeg with the 4x10 cab AND 15 too. Mike'd up the 4x10 cab, which sounded pretty good.
Kev set up in the kitchen, holy crap! hes got one of those nice shockmounted flight cases. a nice rectifier rackmount pre, and mesa poweramp to boot. his guitar sounded sweet. noting that its a little easier to record a loud ass guitar vs. a small clean guitar. almost too easy.... Iwas tempted to try the direct out on his amp, it has a recording output jack, but i stayed away, and im happy with the sound.
for the drums (k-d112, s-sm57, rt-mk219, ft-mk219) i think now that the tom/cymbal mikes were a little too loud, still need to find the sweet spot for those, but not bad. Dans got some fine cymbals which will make any recording sound better. The cymbal i have at home suck, so they always sound crappy....
Also got a chance to do some acoustic songs with them, which came out neet. Ive got to remember to record a test first, before *any* recording. find the level, record a test, listen to it, adjust. repeat if needed. i messed up dans guitar track by overloading the track. luckily i had room mics goin too, (and the front door open, wanted to get any cars that drove by, for a nice downhome cooked sound) so i pumped those up and the gutiar came back.
Micky had an acoustic bass which sounded cool. he also had a couple of acoustic songs, but i think they will be turned into full band versions at some point, cant wait to hear those.
All in all we listened to "here with me" about a million times and had a great time. I'll post here when micky sends me the link to some photos or mp3's.
