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  • The finishing touches…

    Posted by LaZae on April 19, 2010

    I finished recording and mixing with Pat last week!  4 new songs!  We’re just making last tweaks on the mix now and soon will be mastering it.  Gabe Nelson also came in and laid down some amazing bass parts on the songs (he’s a self-professed “bass ligament expert” ;-)).  He really gelled the tracks together.  We recorded his bass through the Avalon U5 with an original LA-2A tube compressor.  Sounds amazing.  I’m so happy with how everything came out.

    I meant to upload this sooner, but here's a look at where I recorded vocals (you can still sort of see all of the mics we tried out setup) as well as where we recorded electric guitars. There's the good ol' Vox!

    In the mixing stage, we had a wonderful selection of outboard gear in Pat’s arsenal.  We used four original Pultecs, two LA-2A’s, a Neve 1073 on bass and a Neve 1081 on acoustic guitars.  My vocal chain was through a Pultec, through an LA-2A, through an 1176 and then through a Federal Limiter.  The Federal Limiter is an old limiter from the US Army used in the 1950′s.  We ran the guitars through Pultecs as well.

    Can’t wait to get these tracks mastered!!

    xo

    FL

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  • The Home Stretch

    Posted by LaZae on April 8, 2010

    It’s been a couple days since my last post and we’ve made a lot of progress getting these songs recorded.  We finished programming all of the drums.  We came up with some dope arrangements and used some original drum samples that we created from scratch.  Then we sweetened up the guitar parts because Pat likes his “guitars like [he] like [his] woman; fat, ugly and loud.” His words not mine lol.    We used the same custom 15 watt amp except we swapped in a Electro Harmonix tube for a different sound.  And then swapped in an Amperex Bugle Boy Tube to get another sound on another guitar track.  All this tube talk reminds me of a valuable lesson I learned from Pat during these sessions: “Bad sounding tubes are still better than broken tubes.”  Oh so true.

    After we finished the guitar parts (yay they’re all done!), we were ready to start recording vocals on Tuesday!  We tried out a few old neumann tube mics and ended up using a cheap audio technica mic instead.  It just sounded good. I finished vocals on one song on Tuesday night and I knocked out two more songs on Wednesday afternoon.  So I have one more song to sing today and we’ll be ready to add some little musical “sparklies” to finish off the tracks.   Which also reminds me of two more lessons I learned from Pat during these sessions and I quote: “TMS = Too Much Synthesizer” (a crime we will not commit in my songs ;-)); and “It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever” (a very important balance which I think we are achieving).

    And then on to the mix!  Can’t wait!

    xo

    FL

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