The Art of Levitation

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Some of you might have read my thing about Pete Bardens (who has cancer), in the cave. If you have not - please go read it and leave a message for Pete there.

In the meantime, Pete's CD with Mick Fleetwood was the last thing I mixed before I started building the studio, and it will be released soon.

You can listen to some samples here http://www.petebardens.com/peteb/default.asp

Someone fucked up some of the MP3 conversions, that will be put right soon I hope.
Its not my kinda music / sound, but so what. Pete recorded most of it at home - including Mick playing his Roland kit. Pete's no genius when it comes to recording, neither was the guy who helped him. Levels were either to hot or to low, and I had to spend ages fixing stuff, as well as replacing some of the tracks.

It was done on a budget, I had to do it in a home studio in LA using 4 ADATS, a Mackie D8B and some ourboard gear I borrowed from Lindsey Buckingham's home studio. Hope you like it anyway.
 
Pretty nice sound there sjoko2, considering you only had ADATs and a DB8 at your disposal!!! ;) :p

:D :D

I see what you mean about certain sounds - the vocal (or vocal effect) is pretty sibilant on "She Takes Me There." And some tracks are decidedly lo-fi.... what happened to the kick drum on "No Jazz"? It just kinda sputters...

Is this a "pre-mastered" version, or is there still some post-production intended for these cuts?

Bruce
 
Someone in the UK put the site up for Pete, I don't know what the hell they did in the conversion, it sounds like its got EQ on it, and No Jazz clips like mad.
Lets call it the fucked up version?;)
Apart from that ... Pete has certain ideas about sound - I wouldn't say the're exactly level with mine?
 
I listened to the songs. I loved spirit of the water best of all.

Were these songs recorded directly to digital, or was there some tape involved?

I make any comments about proffessional mixes. THey all sound like they should
 
some of it was recorded into Cubase, but then, believe it or not, dumped on old 16 bit ADATs. I converted it from those to 20 bit ADATs to mix it.
 
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