"I'm Getting Pretty Good At Giving Up" EP finished

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"I'm Getting Pretty Good At Giving Up" EP finished

Post by dynomike » Mon May 11, 2009 3:34 pm

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Listen or PWYC download here. Cover art by TOMB's own Lane Fujita, who did the art for my first EP as well.

Feedback is always appreciated, but I'm not making any more changes. Happy to answer any questions about the recording, etc. Hope you like it!

-Mike
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Post by Artifex » Mon May 11, 2009 3:57 pm

Tell me about the artwork.
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Post by mjau » Mon May 11, 2009 4:12 pm

I'm stoked to hear it...always really like your stuff, Mike. I'll d/l tonight, probably.
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Post by dynomike » Mon May 11, 2009 4:31 pm

Artifex wrote:Tell me about the artwork.
What do you want to know?
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Post by Artifex » Mon May 11, 2009 9:35 pm

Who did it? I dunno, I just like it. :D
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Post by dynomike » Mon May 11, 2009 10:05 pm

Artifex wrote:Who did it? I dunno, I just like it. :D
glad you like it! lane fujita did it; he did the art for my first EP as well, and I hooked up with him through this forum. the concept was mine... based on a line from the 'title track', but with different animal and setting.
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Post by Corey Y » Mon May 11, 2009 10:53 pm

Thanks for posting it Mike. I've been looking forward to hearing the finished product with these songs.
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Post by Brian » Tue May 12, 2009 5:01 am

Rock on, Mike! Been waiting on this.
Harumph!
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Post by darjama » Tue May 12, 2009 6:31 am

Cool! I checked out the stream, I'll be downloading this when I get home.
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Post by Jeff White » Tue May 12, 2009 12:11 pm

Downloaded and have been listening to it all day! Love the sounds!

Can you tell us all about the record process? Medium? Mics? Instruments?

also, where can I get your first EP?

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Post by mjau » Tue May 12, 2009 1:19 pm

Finally listening to this now...really great stuff!
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Post by dynomike » Tue May 12, 2009 1:52 pm

ipressrecord wrote:Downloaded and have been listening to it all day! Love the sounds!

Can you tell us all about the record process? Medium? Mics? Instruments?

also, where can I get your first EP?

Jeff
I'll put my other records online shortly, good point.

I'll try to stick to the constants about recording details, since I didn't record any of the songs together (one song at a time, with different setups):

All recorded digitally and mixed ITB. Mainly with Panasonic WZ-AD96 converters. I did print many of the mixes through outboard compression (ny2a and/or/maybe g-ssl).

Acoustic guitars are mostly Larrivee D-03 mic'd with lawson l47fet and maybe stereo rooms. Shitty $1 unbalanced hi-z mic on moving song.

Electric guitars are all Fender japanese strat with bill lawrence p/u's, mostly recorded with beyer m201 or m88

Bass: mainly DI (hamptone jfet or bryston), often reamped through ampeg b15s, mic'd with l47fet

Keys, synth bass: ensoniq esq-1, straight into EMU soundcard

Vox: M88 on secret tattoo (reamped also)
Lawson l47fet on giving up (overdriven with hamptone tube pre)
Nady/Peluso 47 clone on invocation, liar eyes, reach up, long term
radioshack dynamic for most of the background vox and lead vox on 'moving song'
preamps vary

Drums... changed up a lot.

Secret Tattoo is just 4 mics on one drum kit, with lots of SSL compression (in parallel in the chorus), Invocation has 3 drum kits going the whole song... I recorded each song separately. I guess the main things that would be in common would be:

1. me playing
2. slingerland kick drum and rogers or ludwig metal snare
3. sleepytown room
4. quad eight preamps for kick and snare, sometimes overheads too
5. usually set up a stereo pair as well as a mono o/h. xy rooms sometimes.

Pretty much everything else (heads, tuning, placement in the room, mic'ing, preamps, mixing) was changing up. But if there's a specific song you like the sound of I can probably remember.



Thanks for the acclamations guys! You are pumping me up.
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Post by minorkeylee » Tue May 12, 2009 2:19 pm

I made my donation.

Great songs, great sounds. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by Jeff White » Tue May 12, 2009 2:28 pm

Thanks for the gear list!

http://bandcamp.com/

Seems to be the solution we've all been waiting for. My friends' band Audible are releasing their new record on Bandcamp next week (streaming now) and have been praising how awesome it is for weeks.

I'd love to hear more of your projects. Really been loving these songs. My girlfriend and I had a listening party with the stuff streaming on your website this past winter and were loving what we heard. So I'm excited about the new EP and have been listening to it a lot today.

As a guy who has been recording other folks' stuff during the last 10 years much more than doing my own music, I find it really inspiring.

Again, great sounds.

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Post by Trick Fall » Sat May 16, 2009 5:37 pm

For some reason I could only hear Secret Tattoo, but I like it a lot.
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