Chad Stockdale and his amazing saxaphones.
Tuesday night consisted of vanila cola, salt and pepper chips, and a bunch of saxaphones.
Chad needed a 1 minute long track recorded fairly quickly, so i invited him over to do it. He brough over an old synthesiser, and three saxaphones. an alto, tenor, and a bass clairinet.
His idea was to have the synth going, and overbub everything over it.
easy enough. we used my cd player as a timer, at 5secs i counted down to 10 secs, at which point Chad started up the synth. it made a pulsating tick noise, it sounded wet alomst, kinda like driping water..then at 1:05 i counted down to 1:10, at which point he stoped the synth. the counting was on one track so we could cue him later on and the synth to its own track.
Next up was the bass clairinet. I used my two mk219's for this. one close, one further back, each to its own track. Chad can realy belt out the sax parts loud, so it wasnt hard to get a nice sound. we had to time it because chad wanted to end all the sax's at the spot where the synth gets crazy.
So we got that nailed down, and was abnle to get chad a mix that he was happy about too. Its soo much easier only working on one song.
In other news, the Audio Calendar is finaly in a spot where it looks like everything is making sence. My ideas are being followed up with
extensive charts and lists.
So what im thinking is a park show for the release of the cd. more on that soon. but ive come up with the layout of the packaging, and possibly a track listing....
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.
