ok...here we go! (takes a deep breath)
BIT OF BACKGROUND 1st:
"9 elements of inner vision" (recorded by Endel Rivers mixed and mastered by Andy LaRocque)
"A world full of grey" (recorded by yours truly at my project studio, except main vocals which were recorded by my good friend Michael at Shred Studios, mastered at Crystal mastering in Melbourne)
Current album in progress, (recorded again by yours truly except main vocals again recorded at shred studios by Michael, will be mixed and mastered by Tommy Hansen in Europe).
The clip currently on our eyechannel shows shred studios (Michaels studio).
I dont have a dedicated vocal booth at this stage (but will next year) and although I have recorded vocals here many times by setting up a temporary booth it is much easier to have Danny go to Michaels studio because this means we can work on vocals and instruments at the same time by utilizing the 2 workspaces at once. Also, Michael has a head start on me when it comes to collecting very botique items so this was another advantage.
From memory the vocal chain is: Nuemann tlm49 into neve 1073 preamp, into 1176 into la2a. Both Michael and myself use apogee converters which we love. and we are using steinbergs Nuendo recording software.
guitars: digitech preamp (cons special gain plus more gain setting) into hughes and kettner amp, into engl 2 X 12 cab with V30's, mic'd with sm57, into focusrite ISA428 preamp into apogee's into computer. We may be using another amp for the next set of gtr tracks but this isnt confirmed. We are also doing a bit of reamping on this album.
My advice on drums is this: unless you have a very very very very very very very very very good sounding room to record real drums in, stick to samples, either get the drummer to play enitirely on an electronic kit, or play a real kit to capture the hats and cymbals then resample the rest later. If you're good with your programming you should be able to do a good job, having a good selection of samples and knowing your sampler well helps! On this album we are using a combination of the above mentioned techniques.
Bass will be D.I only. no amp, most likely into my avalon straight into converters. Does the job.
oh yeah, and both studios are running pc's.
Again, I cant stress the drum room situation.
well for now thats all I can think of, I'll post more as we go along, and we'll be putiing up more footage and photo's as we go!
cheers,
SammyG