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.
