I'd meant to start this earlier. A li'l diary of the making of a record. The band is called Bellflur, a group I'd played with several years back. The recording is being done all in somewhat improvised spaces - old farmhouses may not offer the technical advantages of a proper studio but it's hard to argue with the comfort. You can experiment with sound all day and not worry about being billed by the hour.
We're this far wrapping up the first two songs, the main tracks are all down and we're just overdubbing the last backing vocals and waiting on two members of local group Exit Clov to come in and add some violins and vocal parts.
Day one was spent doing drums. We used Hunter's Gretsch Catalina kit and my old Gretsch 3 piece. My '60s Slingerland 6 lug snare for one track and my '70s Slinger 7 lug for the other; both are 14x6s.
Next sessions were done at The Mansion, as will most all sessions from here out. CP70s DI'd into the 2108 with a TM2 - Altec 1566a - Drawmer 1968me chain over the hammers. Bass DI'd into a Tab/Funkenwerk V71 and reamped into Tom's Mesa 400 + 4x10 cab, mic'd with SM7 and 4047s. Patrick's guitars into a Bassman RI, mic'd usually with SM7, Royer 121, Crowley & Tripp Naked Eye, and Audix I5. Glockenspiel with KSM141s into 2108. Vox mainly TM2 - Phoenix DRS - 1968, sometimes the Urei BL40. Synths, fuck, too much to remember. I'll take better notes from now on.
