Thanks alot Wes480!
its great that someone appreciates us, not many people do...
Funny that you like them, we didnt reherse before we recorded these songs, they turned out pretty good considering that i guess..
I actually did a remix of bitches & hoes where i raised the volume of the guitar in the verse. Perhaps that will solve some problems.
That will have to be my last attempt as i cant borrow
the Tc m3000 that i used anymore. I like that box so much, maybe ill steal it from my dad
The Guitars were recorded with an marshall jtm610
tubeamp pretty cranked, with an sennheiser mic. Its flat and square, gold on one side. Black on the other. (dunno what its called though, something "...black fire" I think). Also i threw an sm57 on one of the speakers wich i used aswell in "gone left goodbye".
The Vocals were recorded with, tada: an AKG c3000 with the singer pretty close up to try and get just the right amount of proximity effect. Later i added some minor eq tweaks to fit them more into the mix, some cuts at 400 (too much prox effect i guess) and +2 db at 1.3k to make it somewhat clearer. And also i put on a highshelv at 11k +2db appr.
for preamp I used
a Mindprint di-port (24bit ad/da converter with class A mic preamps that sounds great to me, pretty clean....which i like. And on the guits. the usual mackie. all going into nuendo and a Yamaha Dsp-factory w two ax44´s. We recorded on my old celeron 400 puter, then i bought a new one (athlon xp1500+) and mixed on that, almost impossible for me to max this baby out. Well it´s damn hard anyway.
The drums were recorded differently in the two songs.
B & H drums were recorded with 4mics.
2 Akg c391 into the di-port, one over my shoulder. and one positioned about 1-2 feet over the rim of the floor tom with an equidistance to the snare center to avoid phasing problems.
1 shure beta 52, or perhaps an RE20 on kick. I cant remember. And also i tuned the kick in an unusual way to get rid of the usual rock type kick sound. I was going for a more "boomy" thud so I removed the front skin, and tuned the batter skin loose as hell.
1 sm57 on the snare, which I at first didnt use. But when we added the guitars and vocals the balance got fu*ked. So i had to put it up.
The drums in "gone left goodbye" were recorded with more mics.
the Akg c391´s were positioned in the more common spaced pair fashion (as high up as I could get them and a bit in front of the kit, wich made the sound more balanced) and then going into the di-port.
On the tom i used
a sennheiser e604.
first i used an e604 on the floor tom aswell, but then i tried the RE20 and it blew the e604 away so i changed.
On the kick, i used
the shure beta52.
On snare, the usual sm57.
And also I recorded the room with the C3000 placed in front of the kit just above the rim of the kick.
and then i squashed the hell out of it with a Waves ren comp.
and then put up just enough to make it somewhat trashy and raw. I didnt have the money to buy new drumskins, so that could explain the way they sound.
The Bass was recorded using a Countryman D.I and later i used
psp vintagewarmer to compress/distort it a little. The vintagewarmer actually got used alot on the tracks. Esp on the guitars. I could mention aswell that we first recorded the drums and one guitar, we put the amp in a small closet/storage room with concrete walls. So i put a blanket over the cabinet to minimize the disturbing room sound. The other room were we recorded the drums is not very big. And has a low ceiling, so i tried to minimize the reflections from the roof to avoid nasty flutter echoes and such messing with my oh mics.
Thats it I guess.
Any other questions?
Jonas H
