afternoon recording project.

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:10 pm

my friend jon and i made this song today for fun. i played drums, bass, and some guitar. he played rhythm guitar and sang. it was a fun few hours.

http://www.wickerband.com/music.html

it's the song 'tranquilizers'

john

evan · Post by **evan** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:54 pm

Sounds pretty great. That snare just whacks you in the head right in the beginning. How'd you record the drums? They're nicely distinguished without being gigantic, which I'm a big fan of. Really nice mixing near the end, when everything opens up. I could only wish my recordings would sound this good for an afternoon's work.

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:59 pm

the drums were recorded with 2 mics, an AT 4047 outside the kick and n RFT Geffell PM750 as an overhead. i ended up layering a sample i made under the kick and snare to give them a bit more presence.. had enough snare transients in the OH to get Logic's 'audio to score' function to track it as a snare. then i compressed the hell out of all of them and ran them through a delay and stuff.

cheers,
john

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:45 am

oh yeah... and all the guitars were DI becuase i am lazy.... just using plugins in logic... no ampfarm...

john

WillMorgan · Post by **WillMorgan** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:13 pm

Awesome tune!

I like the kick patterns, the vocal the guitars, and the overall airy um, "washiness" of the aural space. I think you have some great effects and mixing skills.

wedge · Post by **wedge** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:50 pm

I love the vocal sound... How did you process them? What effects, etc?

Also, how'd you get the bass to be so big down there, without overwhelming the mix? I'm having trouble with that senario in my stuff...

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:49 am

thanks wedge...

the vocal was doubled, and one of the tracks went through the Logic Leslie simulator and a quarter note delay with alot of feerback and the SSL LMC plugin comp.

the other one was distorted with the logic 'clip distortion' plugin on 'medium fuzz' with the mex at about 50. then it went through a federal am864/u and was sent to a fender echo-reverb II and a line6 DL4 pedal.

the bass was a Gibson Ripper that i bought off of a crack head this weekend on the street (it is an amazing bass... 1975 sunburst... sounds awesome) and it got some DBX160 on the way in, and got some of logic's subsynth plugin to get that super deep 'achtung baby' thing going on. that and the adam clayton 8th notes....

glad you liked it!

cheers,
john

wedge · Post by **wedge** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:08 am

I guess logic's pretty cool, then? What version do you have? I have PT LE and it seems pretty basic in comparison, it would seem...

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:41 am

logic is pretty ill as a production environment, and the built in plugins (prticularly the distortion, delay/reverb, and modulation/wierd stuff) are pretty great. you definately get alot for your money, but it's also more expensive than LE (900 for the software, and you also have to have an interface) although i'm pretty sure you can use it with your 002... it's not as good for using as a 'tape machine' as protools, and the learning curve is a bit steep, but it's a really flexible piece of software.

cheers,
john

ClownMonkey · Post by **ClownMonkey** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:41 am

Tight. I like how it cracks open into a big ole music explosion in the beginning.

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:45 am

danke.

john

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