this is a fun trick.
schedule a recording session for
sunday afternoon.
then, sign up for a watercolor class
that starts this weekend, which
will probably conflict with your
recording schedule.
mix and pour over The Hostages
(the aforementioned band you
were going to record.)
enjoy.
(the hostages are a two guitar,
drums and vocals band.
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told them that they should record with me.
this'll be the first band i havent heard,
or met (butive talked with them via email)
before going into record. still, i cant wait.
i just hope my "duh, watercolor" class
wont meet on sunday, so i can do it.)
in other news, chris w. might sell me a
mixing board. i might buy both of them if
they will work for current set up. they'll
definatly work for what i want to do in the
future, which is go to 8tk adat, but im still
unsure of that. even so, id still keep the old
488 layin around to play with. realy, its perfect
timing, i was plannin on picking up another
berhinger product (the ub2222, 8 channels, stereo
outs, plus 2 sub outs - which is perfect for
my 4 at a time 488, plus effects -which would be nice
my reverbs i have at home suck) this next paycheck.
but we will see.
black
dahlias show on monday, cant wait for that.
AND this month i turn 26. cool.
Pets came over on monday to record a reworked song, Coldhouse.
Im pretty sure its my best to date. I want to say it's cause i've learned the different tips and tricks well, and not because my dbx has been off for the past i dont know how long sessions.
but yeah, my dbx noise reduction was off. im not sure when that happened, its a little switch on the back. off all the things on my machine, its the one ive never documented. i write down compressor settings, eq settings, pedal combonations, which one comes first, microphone numbers, but which tapes did i use dbx? hmmm. dont know.
so thats a new step i need to remember to take. "DBX ON"
But the Pets track came out nice.
Bass guitar, close miked with an akg d112. i checked the cab and the middle speakers arent as loud as the top and bottom(its a 6X10), they might not even be working. i tried a second mike, an oktava mk-219 on a different speaker.
what i wanted was to blend the two together, but it wasnt soundin right.
ive been reading alot about phase recently and i suspect that iwas having some phase problem from runnin two signals, from the same source, into one track. so i pulled off the 219 and went with the d112.
we decided to run the guitar in stereo. so a 57 up close, and a mk-219 further off. ran it to two channels panned. i love that.
the drum machine went to one track.
the guitar has a part where a little solo is played, more like a lead and we decided to record that little part later as an over dub, which was a direct guitar put through this "treble booster" homemade pedal that
Mattk left over in the studio. its cool, it makes somw crazy feedback if youve got a loud amp, and it even makes crazy feedback going direct. so when after Allison plays the lead it feedsback, then she plays it again, and then more feedback. its a fun little sound.
we added vocals, doubled in spots.
Derek added some distorted vocals here and there, and later added some breathing noises, which i demanded to be run in stereo.
Shaun Slaughter is also going to remix this song.(he's already done Backseat, which i hear might be featured in an upcoming Thrasher video??! and has been in the hands of a dj who travelled to Nashville and played it at a club. it got the everyone dancing.) geez. PETS rule
