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I’ve just finished a new “Alan Parsons Project” inspired track in my home studio. I'm a huge Alan Parsons in terms of production and arranging so the goal was to try and emulate some of his techniques in this song.
My studio is a converted double garage in which I built a dividing wall to make a small booth and a control room. I applied soundproofing in the booth by fitting dry walling and foam to the brick walls and applying cloth padding on two of the walls.
The booth is fairly dead from an acoustics point of view. I mainly use it for tracking vocals and drums these days. I no longer mic up amps anymore as I’m using a Kemper Rack for all guitars and bass.
I’m running a pc using Cakewalk Sonar with a MOTU 16A audio interface. This interface does not have preamps built in so I’m using the preamps in my Yamaha mixing desk. The MOTU does however have 16 analogue inputs and outputs.
To mic the drumkit I’m using an AKG D112 on the kick, SM57s on the snare and toms, Behringer B1s on the hi hat and overheads, a Rode NT1A on the ride and an NT2A for the room. This gives a total of ten mics for the drums.
The keyboards used in this track comprised of soft synths (Steinberg X-Stream, Lounge Lizard, Hybrid) and for the voice patches I used the Vocal card from an old Roland JV2080 synth.
As I mentioned earlier, all guitars and bass used the Kemper Rack and the guitar profiles were my own which I captured from my Marshall JCM2000 combo using a few MI Audio drive pedals.
I wanted the final mix to be as clean as possible and in order to achieve this I went for a “no frills” performance. In other words, no “overplaying” from the instruments.
I also filmed each session with three Sony HD cameras and edited the footage together using Magix Vegas for the final production.
I write and record these songs for my own enjoyment these days. My studio is not really used commercially anymore.
My studio is a converted double garage in which I built a dividing wall to make a small booth and a control room. I applied soundproofing in the booth by fitting dry walling and foam to the brick walls and applying cloth padding on two of the walls.
The booth is fairly dead from an acoustics point of view. I mainly use it for tracking vocals and drums these days. I no longer mic up amps anymore as I’m using a Kemper Rack for all guitars and bass.
I’m running a pc using Cakewalk Sonar with a MOTU 16A audio interface. This interface does not have preamps built in so I’m using the preamps in my Yamaha mixing desk. The MOTU does however have 16 analogue inputs and outputs.
To mic the drumkit I’m using an AKG D112 on the kick, SM57s on the snare and toms, Behringer B1s on the hi hat and overheads, a Rode NT1A on the ride and an NT2A for the room. This gives a total of ten mics for the drums.
The keyboards used in this track comprised of soft synths (Steinberg X-Stream, Lounge Lizard, Hybrid) and for the voice patches I used the Vocal card from an old Roland JV2080 synth.
As I mentioned earlier, all guitars and bass used the Kemper Rack and the guitar profiles were my own which I captured from my Marshall JCM2000 combo using a few MI Audio drive pedals.
I wanted the final mix to be as clean as possible and in order to achieve this I went for a “no frills” performance. In other words, no “overplaying” from the instruments.
I also filmed each session with three Sony HD cameras and edited the footage together using Magix Vegas for the final production.
I write and record these songs for my own enjoyment these days. My studio is not really used commercially anymore.
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