Friday, November 03, 2006

The whole bunch at once

We've experimented a little. Why not? How do you record when you try to do it all live in a limited space? Well, we did it in our practice area. It's a room about 4x5 metre. What did we do? Well, we recorded the drums over 4 tracks, bassdrum, snare and two overheads. The overheads were placed at the height of the toms and crossed right above the bassdrum. This worked out great. But that's later. The guitars were miked with our audiotechnika mike and we've bought a MXL 990 which we also used for a guitar amp. Vocals were done with a phonic and a superlux mike which both aren't that great, but it'll have to work because we don't have anything else. The bass was once again really easy, we plugged it right into the mixing panel.

Press record and play. We've recorded around 70 minutes of material and had a lot of fun doing it. We always act a little wacky during recording sessions.
After this we needed to mix it all. Gating isn't really an option here in my opinion except for the bassdrum. We mixed the tracks the same way as always except we didn't gate the snare, guitars and vocals. This to keep the feel of a live recording.

I haven't really mastered it yet. A little quick with an EQ, a filter, denoiser and stereo spread, but nothing much. When that has happened in a respectable manner, you'll probably be hearing some of our stuff.

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