Broken Home is a band consisting of Jeanne, daughter of Tony and Jenny
who have been divorced for like 20 years or somthing? but recently
have been working on songs together for a few months now and have
played a few partys and shows, and ive taken the time to help record
some songs for them now.
Its just Jeanne and Jenny singing, and sometimes playing the kazoo,
and Tony playing acoustic guitar. Good stuff.
Weve had two sessions.
Week one:
since my 8 track was busted at this point, i decided to go the
minidisc route.
used an oktava mk-219 on Jeanne and an sm 57 for Jenny. had them
facing each other so each mic is pointed away from each other.
I had Tony set up facing the ladies. I put a picup in his guitar and
went direct with that. I also put up two mics about in the living room
for a stereo ambiance(the other mk219 and the audio technica "red"
mic). we ran through a few songs, ones we didnt like we jsut didnt
use.
The sound was ok, a little more live than i wanted, but not bad still
for demo work.
Week 2:
This time i prepared a little more *and* i used Troy's four track.
I used the two mk-219s for Jeanne and Jenny, this time each mic facing
diagonaly towards a chair that had the lyrics on it, so they could
see. Tony was set up behind them. I used the acoustic pickup as well
as the sony stereo mic i have (ECM somethin..)
So the vocals, i ran a line out of the insert(only in one click) right
to the 4track. So its just the preamp to tape, no EQ. The guitar was
submixed to two tracks stereo. The stereo mic picked up the room a
little too and this byfar sounded way better.
I had some clipping to tape on the vocals here and there, cause i
didnt compress to tape(maybe i should have?). I couldnt figure out
what it was, besides too hot a signal, some frequency maybe cuttin
through too much. But over all the sound was good.
I mixed the songs before they left (only 3) and had ablast with that.
As before i used the effects send on the four track for some leverage.
One on song, i ran the vocals from the 4 track to both the main mix
and the efx1(its hardwired post fader, drat...). The efx1 went to a
compressor which i used a light dose of, then to a seperate channel on
the mixer. There i removed the direct feed and turned on the build in
reverb. Usualy adding in reverb via the board sounds pretty grainy,
but compressing it first then adding in reverb made it sound pretty
cool. haunting too.
Over all a great session in about 3 hours. Looks like Heather and gang
(The Touchie Feeleies)will be in on sunday unless i play some drums
with the seapigs......
