Pawn Takes Pawn

Did i ever post about things weve done with PETS?
i'll hafta look into that.

In the meantime im recording the Ski Instructors
tonight using Dougs 8 track ADAT. i cant wait.

Doug gave me the tapes from the Frenchmen sesh we did
and i played around with mixing that last night.
These tapes didnt have any vocals or over dubs, but
i figured id play with mixing and try it out a little.

I still like mixing on a mixing board vs in the box.
It seems much more loud and i was able to get the guitars
in a better spot than on the mix from dougs. Man, though,
the kick is jsut s blip sound. i had to crank it.
also Leons guitar track was quieter and muddier. i think it was his.
the clean guitar came out great(signal wise) i wonder if a different
mic wouldve been better for leon.

the snare drum sounded fine, and when i brought up the
overhead/tommics it sounded great. just gotta find that sweet spot.
also, im hooked on hi hat mics. adds alot of definition to what could
otherwise be some buried hi hats.

so for tonight im thinking of doing:
kick-d112
snare-57
overhead-mk219
room
guitar yellow at
guitar yellow at(or mk219)
bass RE20
vocal

not sure about the room or vocal mic yet.
maybe what ever i have left.

the vocal could be a scratch track too, and maybe they'd wouldnt mind
going to dougs to record the vocals anyways. though it'd be super
clean and i think scott wants a raw recording.

do the vocals on the spot?

another idea is to use my old ass peavy mixing board as the
preamps.its got 8 in 8 out. ive been dying to use it that way too.
then i could monitor on my mackie with no problems, and maybe run the
cd burner to get the live outtakes...?

i think thats what ill do. thats way wicked too!
cant wait.