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Sweet Lovely Friend by Lasse Krog | Free Listening on SoundCloud
I did owe my mate a favour and besides I have wanted to record more quiet music for a while now and recording a talented friend was a good way to practice this without too much pressure.
The tune is kind of Cohen or Van Zandt-ish. Right my alley and a kind of music I rarely get a chance to record normally. I happen to love the slightly overproduced late 60's/early 70's "folk music that had the pop treatment" style of production on guys like Hoyt Axton and Sixto Rodriguez, so here was my chance to experiment with that style. Although next time I'd like to get more overboard.
As far as recording is concerned lead vocal and classical guitar is recorded live with no click. Neumann KMS105 on the voice, signal split into a uncompressed track and a compressed one. For guitar it was Sennheiser MKH-406 and a Beyer M201 taped together. This mic combination kept the bleed low while still getting the details fairly well. M201 is low in the mix and hard panned, just to give some sense of "3D". Oktava MK-319 used as room mic but really low in the mix.
The choir vocals is my mate singing with himself, four times on the left hand side and four times on the right. The only bounced tracks.
Can't remember what we used for the piano but it certainly involved the Sennheiser MKH-406 again. Love that mic.
For vocals my mate wanted a sound as close to early Leonard Cohen as we could get. There's two spring reverbs, some echo chamber-like reverb made from reamping the voice to a concrete corridor and a microscopic bit of tape echo.
For the first time ever I used compression on the master bus as the dynamics was simply insane and there was no budget for a pro mastering job. I did a bit of mastering in the digital domain. Does it rumble too much in the low mids? I sure don't claim to be a mastering engineer.
Some feedback would be nice as it's my first try recording this kind of music. Grew up listening to it though.
I did owe my mate a favour and besides I have wanted to record more quiet music for a while now and recording a talented friend was a good way to practice this without too much pressure.
The tune is kind of Cohen or Van Zandt-ish. Right my alley and a kind of music I rarely get a chance to record normally. I happen to love the slightly overproduced late 60's/early 70's "folk music that had the pop treatment" style of production on guys like Hoyt Axton and Sixto Rodriguez, so here was my chance to experiment with that style. Although next time I'd like to get more overboard.
As far as recording is concerned lead vocal and classical guitar is recorded live with no click. Neumann KMS105 on the voice, signal split into a uncompressed track and a compressed one. For guitar it was Sennheiser MKH-406 and a Beyer M201 taped together. This mic combination kept the bleed low while still getting the details fairly well. M201 is low in the mix and hard panned, just to give some sense of "3D". Oktava MK-319 used as room mic but really low in the mix.
The choir vocals is my mate singing with himself, four times on the left hand side and four times on the right. The only bounced tracks.
Can't remember what we used for the piano but it certainly involved the Sennheiser MKH-406 again. Love that mic.
For vocals my mate wanted a sound as close to early Leonard Cohen as we could get. There's two spring reverbs, some echo chamber-like reverb made from reamping the voice to a concrete corridor and a microscopic bit of tape echo.
For the first time ever I used compression on the master bus as the dynamics was simply insane and there was no budget for a pro mastering job. I did a bit of mastering in the digital domain. Does it rumble too much in the low mids? I sure don't claim to be a mastering engineer.
Some feedback would be nice as it's my first try recording this kind of music. Grew up listening to it though.
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