Marathon Session

The whole point of doing this thing at home was to allow ourselves to take our time and finesse the sounds to right where we wanted them in a relaxed setting. Yesterday though we faced a decision; take our time all weekend and make our recordings at a relaxed pace, or get to play paintball in the woods behind the mansion the next day.
I think we went through two gallons of coffee. Definitely enough to make Tom and Supertaster Carlos sick and my eyes pump in and out of focus. The internal bleeding incurred at least came with rewarding results; we got through tons of tracks on the two new songs.
Brief Physics started out with the CP70 piano running direct into an Altec 1566a with a little presence boost and some low-mid clearing up with an EQP1. The Altec is pretty nuts for pianos, rich gooey sound you can dial just the right grit into. Rhodes was tracked through my Sound City Custom 100 mkIII after my Ampeg B25 blew up (shit!) and Tom's Mesa 4x10 bass cabinet. This was a pretty excellent sounding amplified Rhodes solution. Mic'd with a 4047 into UA 2108. There were a couple tracks of this including one Carlos played without listening to the rest of the mix which is then played into the RE-201 UAD plug with a patch made up for this song... I think we all sort of became Pink Floyd for a minute there.
Bass came from two sources - most of the song is a Novation Bass Station into the M78m and EQP1 giving a little definition boost at 3k and some lows at 100hz where it sits above the 26" kick. During the second half, it's an upright bass Tom refurbished after rescuing it from an unappreciative hippie-nouveau. Tracking it was pretty simple - Pearlman TM2 with the hi-cut engaged about 16" back from the body aimed just above the bridge into M78m. Sounds fantastic.
Guitars. Guitars! Lots of them! I can't keep track of Patrick's pedals. Most Jazzmaster + AC30. Mic'd with a Royer 121 + M78 and Audix I5 + 2108. A couple tracks were Epi Sheraton + Sound City with MD421 + Phoenix DRS. There's definitely going to have to be some subtractive EQ to make it all fit... lots of big echoey guitars and keyboards wanting the same space.
Finally percussion. Patrick used a Mapex floor tom and Pork Pie Big Black snare plus two crashes and a tambo. KSM141 on snare, CAD M179 on floor, TM2 in omni overhead, EV 642 Space Lazer 5000 across the snare. These I'm thinking will be bandpassed and panned Ringo-style so as not to step on the main drums.
On to We Can Build You. We tracked bass, keys, and guitar at once. Bass is the Fender Jag bass DI'd into the Phoenix. Nord Electro DI'd into UA 2108. Guitar is Jag+AC30 with the 121/M78 combo. Easy! We'll probably be reamping at least the bass though the Phoenix sounds really great as a DI - better than the dedicated V71 on this song.
Pictures, then off to the woods.