Thx for all the reactions!
Here are some specifications of the recording:
I had the opportunity to record in a pretty good studio for this one. (drums, bass and horns recorded in a studio, voice in another one, rhodes and guitars at home)
instruments:
Drums: vintage ludwig kid (1969), basic mic setup. What I remember: Sennheizer 421 and 441 on toms; AKG D112 on kick, forgot snare mic, Blue baby bottle on hihat, and I believe 2 small condensor AKG's on hihat.
Bass: Fender precision bass direct into TubeTech Recording channel
Rhodes: Direct into soundcard (was Roland Rhodes patch, so not a real one). It had a slight vintage plugin on it.
Guitars: direct out from a digital hughes and kettner amp. I forgot the type of guitar the guitarist played on.
horns: all 3 Sennheizer MD421, recorded together
voice: Neuman Tube Mic through Tubetech recoring channel.
The mix was made on a pro tools TDM system. There was an outboard exciter on the horns and the voice goes through an outboard TubeTech compressor. The verb comes from a lexicon, I think it is
480 L. All the rest (EQ, comp,....) are Pro Tools Plugins.
Schenker: Thx for your comments, but I disagree on the 'vocals are too buried' I personally found the vocal more than present enough, but then again, that is a matter of taste. But also Steal makes this comment so maybe I just know this song too well?
Steal Sessions: thx on the good comments! I wrote the lyrics and the music for this song, but I don't play any of the instruments on this track. I also did the horn arrangements, but my teacher arrangement at that time checked it and gave me very valuable advice. Btw, how did you hear it is a Ludwig kit??? Good listening from your behalve!
This song was one of the songs I recorded and mixed for my graduation project in my producers course...