Hot Cider, Hot Fire

Four Bellflur tracks are that much closer to done after a pretty good night. Redid a lot of vocals in a new style - we'd been feeling a lot of the parts felt a bit awkward, and then Carlos says he'd really like to try and do some of the vocals in more of a Sparklehorse sort of style. Ok, I thought, sounds fun, let's try. Started with an MD421/m76 and the Copperphone/DRS, switched the 421 with the MD1a. Summed into the Sta Level at it's fastest release, pretty slammed, finally into an EQP1 just putting in 1.5db at 5khz and attenuating 15khz 6db with a pretty wide Q. It's going to need a de-esser after that compression, but the sound is pretty darned cool. And it finally fits! Hurrah. Did a bunch of Tom's backing vocals too, mainly the MD1a or my new OmniMouse, which I'm thus far enjoying, DRS all around.

Had to add a couple samples as well. We didn't have the proper adaptor, and felt too lazy to go find a flashdrive, so hey! Let's just mic the laptop. Why not?

Emily and Susan arrived a little later, we're happy they arrived at all, as the roads were coated with ice. We all just about maimed ourselves every time we walked outside which was equal parts comedic and inconvenient. They did violins over a few songs, the O-Mouse in the middle through the DRS, and then each with their own overhead/spot. One was KSM141 - 2108, the other TM2 - v76. For a couple parts we had them play together into the Bova Ball. Their vocals were done two ways. Some parts both sang into the MD1a together, a few we pulled two mics, adding in a 4047 with the two mics about two & a half feet apart and the vocalists facing one another. I am tired, and another group in tomorrow. Resting time.