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Post by seawell on Jan 10, 2023 18:39:38 GMT -6
So the GAS thread got me thinking. I wonder what everyone's favorite recording they made here is with the least amount of gear? I'll kick it off and hopefully this turns into something fun.
About 8 years ago I recorded/mixed/mastered "Delovely(It's Not My Story) by the Sickels Bros.
1 good LDC(Korby KAT)
1 good preamp(APA Juggernaut)
1 good compressor(Buzz Audio Essence)
1 good amp(Divided by 13 RPB 19/37)
Mixed/Mastered all ITB
Vocals & Bass were tracked through the Juggernaut > Essence chain. Snare was tracked through the Juggernaut. All the rest of the drum mics were though an Allen & Heath Zed24 board(just using the preamps). Lynx Aurora 16 converter > Pro Tools was the rig.
Anyone else here have something you can share from a time when maybe you didn't have as much gear as you do now? I'm starting to feel guilty about my YouTube videos being a bad influence so I'm trying to balance it out here 🤣
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Post by carymiller on Jan 10, 2023 21:33:05 GMT -6
So the GAS thread got me thinking. I wonder what everyone's favorite recording they made here is with the least amount of gear? I'll kick it off and hopefully this turns into something fun. About 8 years ago I recorded/mixed/mastered "Delovely(It's Not My Story) by the Sickels Bros. 1 good LDC(Korby KAT) 1 good preamp(APA Juggernaut) 1 good compressor(Buzz Audio Essence) 1 good amp(Divided by 13 RPB 19/37) Mixed/Mastered all ITB Vocals & Bass were tracked through the Juggernaut > Essence chain. Snare was tracked through the Juggernaut. All the rest of the drum mics were though an Allen & Heath Zed24 board(just using the preamps). Lynx Aurora 16 converter > Pro Tools was the rig. Anyone else here have something you can share from a time when maybe you didn't have as much gear as you do now? I'm starting to feel guilty about my YouTube videos being a bad influence so I'm trying to balance it out here 🤣 I absolutely love that dualing guitar solo lol...it's amazing Josh!  |
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Post by seawell on Jan 10, 2023 21:45:17 GMT -6
So the GAS thread got me thinking. I wonder what everyone's favorite recording they made here is with the least amount of gear? I'll kick it off and hopefully this turns into something fun. About 8 years ago I recorded/mixed/mastered "Delovely(It's Not My Story) by the Sickels Bros. 1 good LDC(Korby KAT) 1 good preamp(APA Juggernaut) 1 good compressor(Buzz Audio Essence) 1 good amp(Divided by 13 RPB 19/37) Mixed/Mastered all ITB Vocals & Bass were tracked through the Juggernaut > Essence chain. Snare was tracked through the Juggernaut. All the rest of the drum mics were though an Allen & Heath Zed24 board(just using the preamps). Lynx Aurora 16 converter > Pro Tools was the rig. Anyone else here have something you can share from a time when maybe you didn't have as much gear as you do now? I'm starting to feel guilty about my YouTube videos being a bad influence so I'm trying to balance it out here 🤣 I absolutely love that dualing guitar solo lol...it's amazing Josh! Thanks! That's my buddy Matt Sickels, he's a beast! |
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Jan 10, 2023 21:49:08 GMT -6
So the GAS thread got me thinking. I wonder what everyone's favorite recording they made here is with the least amount of gear? I'll kick it off and hopefully this turns into something fun. About 8 years ago I recorded/mixed/mastered "Delovely(It's Not My Story) by the Sickels Bros. 1 good LDC(Korby KAT) 1 good preamp(APA Juggernaut) 1 good compressor(Buzz Audio Essence) 1 good amp(Divided by 13 RPB 19/37) Mixed/Mastered all ITB Vocals & Bass were tracked through the Juggernaut > Essence chain. Snare was tracked through the Juggernaut. All the rest of the drum mics were though an Allen & Heath Zed24 board(just using the preamps). Lynx Aurora 16 converter > Pro Tools was the rig. Anyone else here have something you can share from a time when maybe you didn't have as much gear as you do now? I'm starting to feel guilty about my YouTube videos being a bad influence so I'm trying to balance it out here 🤣 I love this topic. Just bumping for visibility. I gotta think about this one. |
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Post by jmoose on Jan 11, 2023 0:14:54 GMT -6
Easy call. My own bands EP. Eended up releasing our 8 track demos warts & all. We redid everything "for real" and it sucked. Totally off the mark. After getting away from it for a while, the bass player said "for all the times we played those songs, that's what we have?" Our rehearsal recordings aren't perfect but they are completely perfect in their imperfections. 4 songs 12 minutes. Total of 8 mics plugged into a Focusrite scarlett. Let it bleed. We're all sweating it out in the same room. Kick - can't remember Sn - 441 ? OH - Shure VP88 stereo Bass - Groove Tubes Ditto DI - Vintech 1272 Gtr - 421 - Vin 1272 Vocal - First song is an angry black man screaming into a shure green bullet > pro Jr amp > mic..? Maybe a 609. Rest of the vocals are, I think an Audix om2 ? > ART Tube MP I used the MP because I needed a preamp for the vocal wedge... one output fed the wedge the other ran to the focusrite. Track 8 = Room mic. Oktava MC12 hung way high in a corner. Used the old Joe Meek channel strip? Maybe. Mixed on my old Soundcraft with an involved amount of outboard. SSL type on the 2 mix at 4:1 yeah its a little pumpy. Its a rock record. Mastering by Cass Anawaty at Sonoran in AZ. ---> goredmatador.bandcamp.com/album/never-made-it-to-mexico <--- Enjoy? |
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Post by thehightenor on Jan 11, 2023 1:52:11 GMT -6
Good band - Good song.
A great starting point :-)
It's an excellent recording - mixed and mastered ITB!
A testament to your considerable skills Josh.
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Post by chessparov on Jan 11, 2023 8:36:54 GMT -6
Sang this direct into my cell phone, on a park bench. One take vocal Acapella. Added some kooky 60's style effects. Then posted it online. Then about 2 months later (originally unknown to me)... A fellow member (it's a different website) kindly added instrumentation and uploaded it so it could be heard complete!  Old classic Traffic deep cut. Chris |
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Post by ericn on Jan 11, 2023 9:03:35 GMT -6
Some early cassette only releases for friends bands, real drums No Compression on a Portastudio that was a lesson in dynamics.
The trick was to mix to cassette as well, if we mixed to real to real it was just to easy to overload the dubs.
Next step was an old radio studio with Ampex M1000’s 440-8 and 440-2 terrible room cramped closet of a control room, slightly better mics and beer, at 14 beer made it work.
We dismiss them today but man those early recordings made me save every penny for a rack with 2 DBX 166’s and 2 Audio Arts Parametrics. They made me and my Tangent 1202 the high school equivalent to Allen Sides.
Then there was the loaner Roland VS880 when I started at Full Co, man the next generation had it easy! Some singer songwriter demos with a neighbor.
Were any of these great recordings? Nah, it was the fun of learning hanging with friends and that whole us against the world attitude with rockstar dreams.
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Post by Ward on Jan 11, 2023 11:40:29 GMT -6
My earliest 8-track reel to reel albums made for my own band and a few friends' bands:
Foster Model 80, matching 16 channel board. Alesis Microgate, Micro enhancer, Micro-limiter, mid verb 2, Ibanez HD500 harmonizing delay...
4 SM57s, 1 SM58, 1 AKG D112 and a pair of C1000s. Mixed to cassette tape! LOL I've hung on to most of that gear for sentimental reasons. some of it still works.
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Post by EmRR on Jan 11, 2023 12:52:26 GMT -6
Easily something done with Radio Shack mics into a cassette deck. Too many to pick from.
Then there's some gear test recordings I did for myself where I did every part through the same mic/pre/comp chain.
After that, could be this one which is everyone live around a Blumlein FatHead pair with a DPA 4060 omni aligned in between them. FH's into a pair of Gates SA-50 program amps, DPA into a Sytek. Some multi band processing ITB to control vocal mainly, FCS P4DMS comp on the print. A couple others on that record are the same approach, but have some layering using the same mic setup.
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Post by paulcheeba on Jan 12, 2023 20:07:09 GMT -6
I came from big studios so having my first Mackie & Adat home set up was bearable as I knew how to record and mix. The first Morcheeba album was done this way with an AKG C3000 on Skye.
Ironically it was a benchmark album for HI FI buffs fwiw and has some of my fav material I’d written.
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Post by reddirt on Jan 12, 2023 20:34:29 GMT -6
A 3 piece quasi jazz record in about 1993 direct to Tascam Da 30 Dat using the pres in a Yamaha RM 804. Recorded in a restaurant after closing using the kitchen as a control room; mostly 1 take and the artists still love it today (I got very lucky)
Sennheisser 420 cans , Alesis monitor ones w/ Crown DC 300A for checking
Quadraverb
No compression.
Good Musicians, great songs , no pressure.
Sm 58 - vox
2 x KM 84 on piano
M88 kick
451 EB O/H
441 Upright bass
Cheers, Ross
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Post by reddirt on Jan 12, 2023 20:38:07 GMT -6
A 3 piece quasi jazz record in about 1993 direct to Tascam Da 30 Dat using the pres in a Yamaha RM 804. Recorded in a restaurant after closing using the kitchen as a control room; mostly 1 take and the artists still love it today (I got very lucky)
Sennheisser 420 cans , Alesis monitor ones w/ Crown DC 300A for checking
Quadraverb
No compression.
Good Musicians, great songs , no pressure.
Sm 58 - vox
2 x KM 84 on piano
M88 kick
451 EB O/H
441 Upright bass
Cheers, Ross
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Post by tackhouse on Jan 12, 2023 21:33:26 GMT -6
Red Letter by Amy Blaschke recorded by myself and Jake Snider, December 6, 1997. We rented a hall at the now demolished Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Seattle. 414 Blumlein pair in the middle of the room, U47 FET for vocal, some small diaphragm condenser on guitar. Placed an SM58 on vocal and piped into the public address system built into the room. Real time chamber! All tracked live. A couple of songs feature cello played by Kim Miller. Hannah Bliley played drums, and the recording was mastered by Troy Glessner at Spectre. We recorded to ADAT! Pretty sure we used GML preamps. I wish the hall still existed. The acoustics were incredible (also tracked basics for This Busy Monster’s Fireworks and Onalaska’s You and the Fishermen there. Each room was separated by a foyer from the shared space and was effectively acoustically isolated. And the rent was cheap, $500 a day. One room had an operational B3 (a aLeslie!) and each room had a piano.  arc broward
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Post by Vincent R. on Jan 13, 2023 6:04:10 GMT -6
Simple live recording I did. I’ve only ever posted my solo, but I had fun recording the whole Easter service.
Peluso 2247SE Mid & Shure KSM44 Side placed center in front of the orchestra and choir, about 8’ up.
Neumann U87ai Spot, approx 2 ft in front of the soloists.
There are a few really nice performances I captured from this service, including a duet where both soloists simply stood side by side and sang into the U87. The blend was amazing. Nothing like working with pros.
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Post by theglow on Jan 13, 2023 7:47:27 GMT -6
First recording I ever made. 2007.
2 SM57’s and a Presonus Firepod.
Straight from my living room to an 8.4/Best New Music rating on Pitchfork and regular airplay on BBC Radio 1.
I haven’t had anything with that kind of reach since, but I’ve certainly made much better records!
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Post by RealNoob on Jan 13, 2023 8:29:52 GMT -6
Easily something done with Radio Shack mics into a cassette deck. Too many to pick from. Then there's some gear test recordings I did for myself where I did every part through the same mic/pre/comp chain. After that, could be this one which is everyone live around a Blumlein FatHead pair with a DPA 4060 omni aligned in between them. FH's into a pair of Gates SA-50 program amps, DPA into a Sytek. Some multi band processing ITB to control vocal mainly, FCS P4DMS comp on the print. A couple others on that record are the same approach, but have some layering using the same mic setup. stunning! Bravo |
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Post by svart on Jan 13, 2023 8:41:03 GMT -6
My general favorites are some of the punky bands I've done. They're usually a lot less picky and a lot more "in the moment".
I did one called Out Of The Fire where we did 8 songs in a day. We tracked instruments in real time and vocals right after.
Drums were a 4 piece and I probably had the usual suspect mics up, which would be D6 on kick, 57(beta) on snare, KM184s(or perhaps the M930s) on OH and ATM25s on toms.
Bass was a U47 on an amp. I can't remember if it was my SVT or if the bassist brought something.
Guitar was AC30 with 57.
Vocal was probably C12.
Back then I never tracked with processing.
I recently remixed the tracks ITB and had minimal processing on the busses. Guitars got a little EQ. Drums got some EQ and snare got a little help from a sample. Bass got some compression and EQ. Vocals got some EQ and compression. Master bus got some compression.
It was one of those sessions where everything went right and the recorded tracks hold up today as some of the easiest to mix.
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Post by RealNoob on Jan 13, 2023 8:49:48 GMT -6
A little different but we definitely work with a shoestring budget, recording off of an A&H board, a handful of decent mics: Beesneez Lulu's on OH, Rhode Shotguns on audience, 2 NEVE DIs and the rest is whatever stuff they have - typical church cheap stock (not good). All ITB. Of course, listening today, I hear a click/pop I missed - lol. figures. Customer didn't notice. Lot's I'd change today, especially the boxy piano but we pulled it off - capturing the moment, which is the aim. Spontaneity should be the name of the band.
Fun for me as the Keyboard player/leader was a Juliard kid and plays 4 KBs at once - He literally has a cockpit. the Sax player (insane) has 10 horns on stage and flips all the time. They are about 60 and like most of us, know every 70s and 80s song and show theme song. The songs show up in various forms within the songs they play - like Sanford and Sons, Gilligan's Island, Andy Griffith, etc. They are nuts and have fun.
This one, mixed on poor monitoring - very thin, tonality issues but not bad for what we had - recorded off of an X32. At about 9mins, they break into Stevie Wonder Superstitous. Fun.
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