Stormcellar All Analog C30 EP Release

[jedblue]

Hello friends. Here is the latest release on hand_art_sound, www.myspace.com/handartsound, an all analog C30 cassette EP by Stormcellar www.stormcellar.com.au.

Five classic blues rock tunes in the 60's and 70's style recorded by us directly to two track 1/4" reel to reel.

The name 'Spacejunk' was chosen by the band to represent the fact that it was recorded on all analog 60's, 70's and 80's period analog equipment.

Side One
1. Come Back Baby
2. Up The Line
3. Merchandise

Side Two
1. Swamp Monster
2. Sweet Misery

Recorded at Goose in Sydney on a Tascam 3500 direct to the Revox PR99 at 15ips with the usual mike suspects, AKG D112, Audio Technica drum mike kit and Shure 57's & 58's. Mastered to 1/4" @ 15ips and dubbed directly off the master to C30 Type I cassette with Dolby C.

Presented inside a hand made baked bean can spacejunk spaceship with a display stand and a laminated mission card. Limited to twenty only.

You can hear a soundbite of Sweet Misery which will start automatically here www.myspace.com/handartsound

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[cjacek]

Man, how's that for originality! Sounds wonderful too!!

Say, Geoff, the online sample is off the cassette, correct? I really dig the "organic", authentic sound.

[jjones1700]

Damn man, you have got the most creative recording and packaging ideas! I'm going to look up the music in just a second. Makes me wonder what you will come with next.

[jedblue]

Originally Posted by cjacek

Say, Geoff, the online sample is off the cassette, correct? I really dig the "organic", authentic sound.

Off the master into Audacity at 16 bit 48kHz, chopped and channeled to 2:30sec then whacked down to 320kbit mp3 and uplifted to Myspace Daniel.

The band are pressing a couple of hundred CD digital versions for their release party at a venue in Sydney next week so most of the copies that will go out will be cd versions. We've just made twenty on cassette as sound art.

It seemed a shame that given that the recording and mastering was all analog that there shouldn't be an all analog final product form out there as well.

I guess it sounds like it does because that's what went on to the 1/4" that day. Just a pretty good band all in the same room with a lot of open mikes going for it straight down to two track with limited eq and a little bit of compression on parts of the drum kit. The cassette versions lose a bit of their top end and their high mids as they are wont to. I still like them though and probably better than the mp3. They are a bit more rounded.

The 1/4" masters sound fantastic played back on the reel machine on the studio monitors with a bit of grunt behind them.

Geoff