Mixing & Prep ... back to life, eh?

Cranking through the Bellflur EP mixes - we were racing against the clock as we were using demo plugin EQs that expired within a week. Not the most ideal way to work. But with my two EQP1s down, we were short equalisers. Drums are sounding insane. Too insane. Have to reign in that low end...

Just finished prep for tomorrow's session with a group. We're using my li'l Gretsch kit for most of it - we may swap out to the 26" for something. Looks like the Jazzfest will be the primary snare, with the Oyster subbing in on a track or two. Dex retuned the kit for me today with his fancy planar torqualising tensionometer and fuck! It sounds amazing again. My tech notes:

Kick In is the ATM25 into the 2108 35/5, Kik Out SM7b into Sytek @ 3.5. FOK is the good ol' TM2/V76/EQP1 (got one working) w/ the 76 at 24/11:30/12 and the EQP1 +2 at 100 +4 at 5khz. OHs are 4047s in modified Glyn Johns formation into the Tele 276s. Rear room is GT-MD1A into Altec 1566a. Snare top M201/2108 35/7 / snare bottom I5/Sytek 2/inverted. Toms are M179s, floor in hyper and rack in cardioid to deal with cymbal placement. Both into the Sytek.

Guitars, thus far I've set up the AC30 in the side hallway for main rhythm tracks. We may swap out for the Super depending on the playing. The Vox is mic'd with an M88 into V76 18/4:00/5:00 and the Crowley & Tripp mic into the DRS pad in -40/2:00.

Got the Leslie and ES330 set up as well. He said he wanted late period Beatles, and dammit, I can do that. Also amazing what the basstraps did for the weird echoes in the room...

Also, happy birthday to me. Bought the URS Neve EQ and put in an inquiry with VK on a pair of Calrec AM16 33609s... yeah, like I can afford those...

note: I *hate* the compressed tonal range look thing in pictures. Don't think I do it because I like it. It's because the one thing it actually is good for is showing detail in shadows for technical documents. Fuck that garbage everywhere else.

note II: A few nights ago heard a band play called The War on Drugs who despite the shitty name are pretty amazing. Singer does the Dylan/Boss thing without sounding like a ripoff, meanwhile the band is massive walls of shimmering beautiful double drummed sound. Nice.