our first "real" release!! tapeopper indie rock

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our first "real" release!! tapeopper indie rock

Post by chris harris » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:06 pm

we've finally released our first "real" cd. as in, it's silver on the bottom and not blue or green! ;) we're pretty excited about it.

i sing and play guitar and lots of other stuff on the record. i engineered it myself at both Bell Labs Recording Studio (featured in an early issue of TapeOp) and my own home studio. i mixed it at Bell Labs. I kind of used this record as a way to learn my way around Bell Labs and have since started doing a lot of freelance work up there.

the record was mastered by Garrett Haines, who does great gear reviews and an occasional column in TapeOp. I was pleased as punch with the mastering! (garrett, your cds are on the way!)

it's spacy, psychedelic indie rock, influenced by bands like Pavement, GBV, Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel, Flaming Lips, etc...

a few songs are posted at our myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/subatomicpieces

check out some tunes and if you like it, don't hesitate to order online! ;)
and, if you ever have an opportunity to support a studio or engineer who's involved with TapeOp, I'd encourage you to do so. I had great experiences with both Trent and Garrett.
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Post by LeedyGuy » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:23 am

Hey. I'm listening and I'm diggin it!

That first song sounds sorta like a Foo Fighters thing somehow...the way the melody works i think.

Nice work.

Nice buzzy crap in the second song. Love that.
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Post by treble king » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:03 am

Nice - sort of Jim Morrison singing with the 'Lips, assistant produced by TMBGs with maybe a little Trip Shakespere ...

Though I thought my monitors were dying on that second tune, I turned 'em on for that :)

Swell heavy guitars - what did you use for fuzz/overdrive on those?
I'm in for two, and I can pay.
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Post by chris harris » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:48 am

Thanks, guys! Most of the guitars were done without pedals. We used a Gibson Chet Atkins, Les Paul Studio, and one of those Kurt Cobain Fenders. Amps were Orange 2x12, Vox ac30, and Fender Bassman. We used a lot of amp overdrive for the distorted stuff. Used a vibrochamp for a few things. Where there's obvious distortion pedal use, it was probably a keeley-modded tube screamer or a boss heavy metal.

On the chorus for Holding You To The Light, there's some guitar stuff going straight from a shitty strat into a big muff and into the DI input of a RNP cranked all the way up and then into a dbx 1066 to bring the level down to something the converters wouldn't hate. definitely a situation specific sound.
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Post by Artifex » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:29 pm

Me like. :D
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Post by Noaht » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:08 pm

Right on oklahoma, I thought the name sounded familiar.
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Post by Noaht » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:14 pm

Hold the phone, who is this? I've met seth and brian, right on to TOMB for bridging the "digital divide".
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Post by chris harris » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:16 pm

this is Chris. I guess you're Noah from Stevedor? looking forward to seeing you guys sometime. you're from Tulsa, right?
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Post by Electro-Voice 664 » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:50 pm

Far Out man, like it too! Good stuff
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Post by Noaht » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:02 pm

Yup, we're tulsans, we're playing OKC though twice in the next month or so, so that's rad. OKC kicks a kinds of musical butt. are ya'll heading to tulsa anytime?
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Post by chris harris » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:36 pm

we're actually booking a tour for May. and, sethy is pretty busy with Umbrellas and Student Film between now and then... but, we'll try to get back to Tulsa soon.
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Post by mjau » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:03 am

Wow - great guitar tones happening.
Well done.
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Post by Z MINOR SOUND » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:02 am

Cool stuff.

What did you use on the snare?
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Post by chris harris » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:18 pm

Andrew Nack wrote:Cool stuff.

What did you use on the snare?
thanks! of the 4 songs on the MySpace page, all drums were tracked at Bell Labs except for Stars Fall, which was done at my home studio.

So, at Bell labs, the snare would have been a sm57 on top, through at API 3124 and either a Soundking LDC or an Audix i5 on the bottom through the UA 2108. and, into Cubase SX through at Motu HD192 w/Big Ben at 44.1.

The other song was probably a sm57 on top, through (shhh) Mackie 1604VLZ Pro pre and no bottom mic. Into Cubase SX through RME Fireface 800.

All of the songs on the album were mixed OTB through the big DDA console and captured back into Cubase SX at 44.1 through Apogee Rosetta 200/Big Ben.

Thanks for checking it out!
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Post by Z MINOR SOUND » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:54 pm

Funny thing is I'm liking the single 57 snare sound from your studio better.
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