Wow, thanks Julian! I’m glad you like it. I’ll take credit for writing the song but not for the playing and singing, John Foster, a guy that lives here in Nashville played and sang the tune. I agree with you, he did awesome!
I recorded the acoustics with my 603s in X-Y (about 90 degrees) on the 12th fret into
my Apogee Mini Me with the compressor/soft limiter engaged on the softer curve (preset 1, for those who have the Mini Me). The song has 3 acoustic tracks and the reason why it sounds so big is because he doubled the rhythm part playing it higher on the neck with a capo. That part is panned hard left and right and is louder on the choruses than in the verses.
Vocals were recorded with a Shure KSM27 inside of a sE Electronics Reflection Filter (
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Reflexion/) that works great, by the way, into my Mini Me with the compressor and soft limiter engaged on preset 1.
For the mix, I used
the URS Classic Console Strip (the $199 one, not the newer $600 one) plug in on every track and added IK Multimedia CSR for reverb (classic plate factory preset) through a bus. I also added analog distortion/warmth to every track using a bus with the freebie Modern Plugins Analoger and added a compressor and Ozone (maximizer and stereo enhancer engaged only) on the master bus. Oh, I almost forgot, my favorite trick for vocals is inserting an stereo bus on the mono lead vocal and have both the mono and stereo tracks mixed. The vocal bus had a very soft and short delay and the same reverb than the rest of tracks.
I use Sonar 6 Studio and John played a $1500 Taylor acoustic that sounded like a million dollars and he obviously can sing, which helps A LOT. Haha!
Sorry for the long post but I don’t think I left anything out ;-)