Hey!
The studio moved, and so did this thing.
gettin' fancy.
http://thebastillestudio.wordpress.com/

Bellflur record!

Mostly done! Too much to write! Shoulda done it in installments but as I had no assistant and days were long I was too tired! Basic rundowns, even though the drums changed every song! Oh yea I'm moving to Inner Ear! Bastille gone legit!

DRUMS
kick in - e602, 1272
kick out - d12, 1272
snare top - ksm141, 2108 mc77
snare bottom - md44,1 2108
rack tom - md421, sytek
floor tom - atm25, sytek
front of kit - cm7, DRS
high overheads - sm69fet, v276
low overheads - km84, 2108, vari-mu
mono overhead - reslo or bova, v76
rooms - phillips, sytek, 2500
center crunch - m130, 1566

BASS GUITAR
RE20, LA610 on Mesa
MD421, V76, Sta-Level, EQP1 on Ampeg

PIANO
KM84 spaced pair on top, Copperphone on top, 414B-ULS on back (sounds like shit)

EL. GUITARS
Carlos clean guitars: Silverface Champ, m88tg - Altec 1566
Patrick guitars: everything in the studio at some point or another. Mainly M88, SM57, Crowley and Tripp, Reslo, U87 on AC30 and Silverface Champ

AC. GUITARS
J45 - CM7, v76, EQP1
LG3 - R92, Biz, MC77 & SM57, 2108

RHODES
414, U87, Bluebird (surprise winner) - V76, EQP1

COCKTAIL KIT
U87 overhead, 635 type omni side, speaker mic under.
on GSFP: 635 type side, Phillips omni w/ 1968 crushing on second floor (working in side loft hallway)

VOX
Carl: CM7 - 76 - MC77 OR combination of VIP50/v276/MC77 + Copperfone/2108/API2500
Tom: RE20 - DRS - 1968
May: Reslo - 76 - MC77 - StaLevel
Emily+Susan: MD1a - 76
Group: Phillips omnis L/R
Andy: MD1a - DRS - StaLevel

STRINGS (done as section)
violins: KM84 XY 76
cello: cm7 drs
section front: Reslo

SYNTHS
primarily direct through V71 and 2108

CUICA
contact mic, all sortsa shit

OTHER STUFF
I FORGET
ITS BEEN A WHILE

Gun Show at Thunder City

is what I think The Danvilles should call their next record.

2/3rds of said band swung by the studio to drop off some tunes today - they are of course the fine gentlemen responsible for the gigantic lovely framed Storming of the Bastille hanging in my room now. We ran most of the tracks for three new songs today in a remarkably efficient manner.

Dex was on my Gretsch kit with the Jazz Fest snare. Had an E602 just inside the hole on the kick, running into the 2108. Top o' the snare was an I5 aimed down the side of the shell, also into the 2108 and MC77 at slow attack, fast release, 4:1, 3-5 db reduction on hardest hits. Snare bottom was the SM7 aimed almost mirroring the I5 into the 1566a. Overheads were KSM141s in x/y into V276/API 2500. They sounded good when I was drumming on them but were a little splashy and harsh with Dex, who hits way harder than I do. In this little room the cymbals get nasty fast, so threw Massey Tapehead over their channels to eat up some highs. Front of the kit was the CM7 into M76/Sta-Level. On the roughs I'm enjoying distorting that channel with the new PT8 Sansamp plugin. For a slower track I threw up the Bova as well, into the M76, crushed with the TG1 in PT. Sounds pretty awesome. Love that mic!

Guitars, I spent the evening yesterday working out placements on the various speakers of my Super Reverb since it's what we'd be using today and I've been unhappy with my guitar sounds lately. Today was a step up. Main tracks were the M88TG into Phoenix DRS. M88s sound great and are good for live tracking since they're pretty tight with their pickup pattern - we were playing loud in this little room and bleed is almost nonexistent. Overdubs we did with the Reslo ribbon at first but pulled it as we thought it broke... turns out it was just picking up the first sounds of the reverb tank in my Super dying. Shit! Another broken amplifier... we ended up doing a few overdubs of dirtier stuff with my Tele into the Barge BP1, mic'd up with a Beyer M201 into the Altec pre. Other guitar parts were the two ES's into the Diamond compressor and Maxon 808 - worked well.

Vocals were the CM7gt - DRS - MC77. Backings were done with the CM7 in wide cardioid or with the M201. Nothing fancy. We got some neat sounds though and I think this'll be a fun one to mix, but it's fun to be tracking again.

"Inamorati" release

Emily and Susan, the "e" and "s" of elms, have tacked the track onto their blog as a holiday download.

http://mousybabe.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/happy-new-year-2009/