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Here's a link to a couple of the tunes we've been working on. Initially I wasn't going to post them up but I think we're close enough to the final form to have a sneaky preview.
Recorded to the Revox PR99 1/4" machine at 15 ips via the Studer desk with a Neumann U87 on vox and an AKG C414B-ULS on the guitar cabinet. So this is as about as hi-fi as we can get in all analog at the moment (as opposed to the lo-fi one mike / Marantz PMD222 cassette recorder thing).
Two of Davey's original tracks here done on an all analog chain but recorded to 24bit/44.1 kHz digital final form then down to 16bit/44.1 kHz cd and finally ripped down to 256kb .mp3 wot you are listening to here if you have a look see - so it's lost a bit of it's gloss by then.
http://www.mp3.com.au/Forms/ArtistProfile.aspx?ProfileId=273076
Davey plays evil distorted loud electric twelve string in the Lonely Few but he has a much gentler side as you can see if you've played these tunes. There's his old Gibson ES-125T on the first track through a newish trannie Epiphone combo with the reverb and chorus in and a late 70's Ibanez Artist through a Fender valve combo on the second one.
Mixing used a couple of Rane SP15 parametrics, a Berri Composer acting as a de-esser, a BBE 882 and an Aphex Dominator multi band limiter. It's not mastered, just dumped to digital after the Dominator. There's a Boss spring reverb and the Nagra IV running tape echo at 7 1/2ips on the vocals which explains why he sounds like a fifties throw back, especially on track two. I kind of like it.
No edits or comping on this stuff. Just played and sung end to end.
Given that it's going to cd-r, we'll do an all in the box ProTools mix of it as well then choose if we like the all in the box or the all outboard pathway best. Or maybe even mix and match?
But I think whatever happens it'll sound pretty close to what's here.
I'm not going to bother to mix it all the way back to tape yet. That can wait a bit until we think about a vinyl release master for this one.
G
Recorded to the Revox PR99 1/4" machine at 15 ips via the Studer desk with a Neumann U87 on vox and an AKG C414B-ULS on the guitar cabinet. So this is as about as hi-fi as we can get in all analog at the moment (as opposed to the lo-fi one mike / Marantz PMD222 cassette recorder thing).
Two of Davey's original tracks here done on an all analog chain but recorded to 24bit/44.1 kHz digital final form then down to 16bit/44.1 kHz cd and finally ripped down to 256kb .mp3 wot you are listening to here if you have a look see - so it's lost a bit of it's gloss by then.
http://www.mp3.com.au/Forms/ArtistProfile.aspx?ProfileId=273076
Davey plays evil distorted loud electric twelve string in the Lonely Few but he has a much gentler side as you can see if you've played these tunes. There's his old Gibson ES-125T on the first track through a newish trannie Epiphone combo with the reverb and chorus in and a late 70's Ibanez Artist through a Fender valve combo on the second one.
Mixing used a couple of Rane SP15 parametrics, a Berri Composer acting as a de-esser, a BBE 882 and an Aphex Dominator multi band limiter. It's not mastered, just dumped to digital after the Dominator. There's a Boss spring reverb and the Nagra IV running tape echo at 7 1/2ips on the vocals which explains why he sounds like a fifties throw back, especially on track two. I kind of like it.
No edits or comping on this stuff. Just played and sung end to end.
Given that it's going to cd-r, we'll do an all in the box ProTools mix of it as well then choose if we like the all in the box or the all outboard pathway best. Or maybe even mix and match?
But I think whatever happens it'll sound pretty close to what's here.
I'm not going to bother to mix it all the way back to tape yet. That can wait a bit until we think about a vinyl release master for this one.
G