6 hours to track, edit, mix and master a song.

[Loren Littlejohn]

So Benchmark decided to do a video series of bands having a day to track a song. Of course using all Benchmark preamps and converters





Anyhow, looks like a lot of stress. uke:

Anyhow, I'm acquaintances with the dude to the left of the older looking guy with the mustache (before you play the video). He was telling me about the recording. Lots of interesting stuff like the fact that the voice verb was the room (not artificial) so lots of pretty cool production shit.

He is credited for "assistant engineer" at the end.

 

[AudioPhile777]

Thats really cool.

 

[AllanD]

Really interesting, but I think the song is terrible. It's busier than a metal mix! So much unnecessary noises going on.

 

[Charles J]

i fucking LOVEEEEEEEEE the chick's voice!!! I'm a sucker for that old school 50's and 60's sound. This kind of has a weird hybrid of it going on..... the song would have been cooler if they would have went with more of the 60's beatle-esque kind of vibe. Right now I'm hearing like 50's vocals, big band intrsuments and fucking some weird 70's drums? lol. Oh well.

Cool juxtaposition I guess

 

[-Noodles-]

So much unnecessary noises going on.

That's what I thought..

It's really, really layered. Not a good thing in that style imo.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I disagree. I wasn't really paying any attention to the song when I initially posted this. But take note that nothing is really trying to overpower anything else until the end when you would expect the song to end big. When the voice is going nothing is trying to play over it. When the percussion is playing something interesting it's brought out front.

Honestly yeah there are certainly a lot of elements, but I wouldn't consider any of them to busy. To busy would be everyone playing through the whole song without any reason for doing so.

 

[Morgan C]

Now let's see them do this with Attack Attack

 

[cloy26]

I dig this song and am digging the production. Has a really really cool groove to it. I def like the girl's voice too. I would listen to more of their music for sure.

 

[John_C]

Really like this. Dunno what you guys are talking about it being too busy................it's pretty simple. Yes it's not drums + bass and guitar in unison and simple vox (i.e. most metal), but it's hardly as complicated as most african music, any big band jazz, any classical etc....

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Now let's see them do this with Attack Attack

Not on your life. It would come out sounding like a turd.

I never asked Jeremy, but I wounder if they did any auto tune on this. I'm guessing not based on how it was tracked, but it would have been good to know.

 

[NovembersDirge]

I like the track, but the lyrics are pretty much retarded. Still, it's cool to see the quick work going on and I really liked the guitar tone.

 

[John_C]

I never asked Jeremy, but I wounder if they did any auto tune on this. I'm guessing not based on how it was tracked, but it would have been good to know.

I can hear some notes that are a bit out every so often (not in a bad way, just not robot perfect) so I'd say not. Remember that outside Pop/Rock/Metal the concentration of people who can actually make music without digital aides is higher

 

[ahjteam]

theres actually nothing really special about this... I used to mic, record, mix and master 3-5 songs in total of 2-3 days (8 hours each) when I was working at Studio Harju.

 

[amarshism]

cool concept

 

[gabriel g.]

great voice!!!!

 

[EliasGwinn]

Hey y'all,

Thanks for checking out the video.

Just to clarify a few things...

- Mastering does not happen in these sessions. It happens afterwards. Eventually, I would like to have the mastering engineer ready to receive the track immediately after mixing so that it all happens in the same day. But for now, it happens afterwards.

- There is no auto-tune on her voice.

...
elias