This Day Was Hard Fought

New rule: don't let the drummer get all tweaked on energy drinks.

also, try to limit one's coffee consumption. I think I'm going to internally melt.

This was a trying day. I struggled to find a sound I really liked for Activate Your Canceled Check, which we were redoing the drums on. After an hour of moving mics around small amounts, we got it, bu because of the shifting we did of the original recordings to match the speech samples that make up the bridge, the second half of the song was totally off the click, which led to many passes through before we had the one.

Then on to a new song, Shooting An Elephant. Easy to get a good sound in, took 20 minutes at most. ATM25 on the kick beater, a 4047 at the end of a drum tunnel. The beater mic was into a UA 2108 and Orban 642b, mostly to pull out tons of 300hz. Tunnel mic ran into Phoenix DRS. Snare top was Beyer M201 ino 2108, bottom was SM7b into Altec 1591. Overheads were Shure KSM141s, -15 pad, middle low-cut setting into Mercury M76m and Drawmer 1968ME, attack at 2, release at auto-1, tapping 1-3db reduction with no sidechain. Room mic was Pearlman TM2 into Altec 1566 + EQP1.

At this point, Hunter had consumed an amount of energy drink + vodka which led to many takes. Many, many takes. In the end, we spliced two performances together, and it sounds great. Kick was my Gretsch 20", toms were Hunter's Mapexes (his custom kit arrives the 20th) and snare was my blackie.

Bass was tracked with Tom's Jag + TAB V71 + Sta Level @ about 6-12db + EQP1.

whoo. long day.