Pics from tracking this weekend...

Room looks to have an easy vibe. Cool drum setup and double bound tele.

Love the guitar pedal cubby. Was that made for shoes?

How did you like the Trident?
Did you use the Trident mic pres?

Yeah, really cool vibey room. I assume the pedal cubby was a shoe rack at one point, but it seems a bit small for shoes. Not really sure. Either way, pretty neat way to store them.

We ran most channels through the Trident. Used some eq on the way in. A few of the channels had issues, so had to patch around a bit, but overall things went pretty well, especially for the first time in the room.

Here's the input list...

Interesting choices.

Any line noise issues with mics being so close to the power mains box like that?

Killer Vibe

cheers

Wiz

OK, the Frank and AEA R84 to do MS stereo on the kit is interesting.  How was it placed?  In front or over the top?  What kind of room dimensions were you working with and how flatly does the stereo image collapse when summed to mono?  

And the i5 under the snare?  Isn't it kind of a very wide cardioid as opposed to the super-cardioids a lot of us prefer for under the snare?  I try to keep any hint of kick or other elements out of the bottom snare mic, for phase reasons alone.  How do you incorporate it in there?  And is the sound skulptor just the 1073 pre clone or do you have the EQ module with it also?  I find 1073s to be great for smear... like overheads but lack the punch of 312s for punch.  But I can go either way... and do (when it comes to API versus Neve) on drums.  

Aston Origin.  Kind of like "if Josephson made a U47 get clone, this would be it"??  Is it like that?  Kind of a precise heavily diffused version of a U47 fet?  I am really unfamiliar with it.  Maybe I need to spend time in RI more often and not just drive through. 


The Sterling (Groove Tubes 44) is a nice choice on hats for detail on bust!  That microphone is capable of picking up the noise your fingers make from chords you haven't even played yet... it's just that quick on the detail.  So... for hats, is it a nuisance for also probably picking up too much of the wash of the hat cymbals moving, the pulley system and pedal?  Like I said, interesting and curious! 

Finally (and Jesse took a sigh a relief) Heil PR40 on bass cab... again, I've never used it here.  What are your thoughts on it?  Much EQ required after the fact?  How did you position it?  Any processing? 

The Frank and R84 seem to be working well for room. I was initially planning to use the Frank as a mono room and a pair of Fatheads in a Blum setup, but one fathead was blown up I guess. So instead, I set up the Frank as planned and used the R84 as a side mic. It was lined up with Frank about 8 inches behind (low on stands and needed to use a straight). Checking in mono sounds fine to my ears.

I've had decent luck with the i5 below because of the presence boost. For under snare, I'm really just using it to add some sizzle to the snare tone and not much more, so the kick won't be much of an issue for me.

I just have the SS MP573 without EQ. I went with this on snare because I was looking to add a little fatness on the way in. Hoping the low mid boost of the N style would give me the beef I needed. The studio has a limited preamp selection and I only brought a small lunchbox, so mostly planned to use the Trident preamps.

For me, the Aston does a fine job in front of the kick. All in looking for from that is some low end beef to blend with my inside kick. I've never used a FET 47, so have no idea how it would compare. I'd be better off using a sub kick, but the Aston did what I needed.

I think the Sterling on the hats was a brilliant choice. I just picked it up for $50 and wanted to give it a go. Smoked the Oktava that I used past time. The Oktava was wash city, but this Sterling was clean and detailed. Better than I could have imagined.

PR40 is my go to bass cab mic. Similar to a RE20. Sounds balls.

Thanks jcoutu1 I never tire of learning from others. And I certainly have learned a couple of things from your posts. We meet way too many dismissive people in the music business who think they can learn nothing from someone else.
I'm grateful there might not even be one person like that here on this forum! (I believe Johnkenn booted out the one who was like that)

Thanks guys.