Howdy folkz...
OK. Here´s a little geektalk
I will try to remember to upload some photos from the session later
Remindification will be needed
OK..
Drums:
We used Tom´s Rockstar Pro with 12" 13" 14" racktoms 16" floortom and double 22" kickdrums
Coated Remo Emperor heads pretty much all over. Pearl Free Floating 14" X 6 ½ brass snare. Cymbals are often Big sizes Zildijan A-custom. I bought an old 24" (!!) Paiste China cymbal the we used for "Hideaway" I think there´s a Wuhan china in there somewhere to. The infamous hihats are a Z mixture, developed for killing small children
The mikes were AKG D112 for kick. Snare was SM57 on top and the bottom a C414 I think.. Rack toms were miked with Audio Technica AT25 and the floortom a Sennheiser MS421 (because I could only find 3 AT25!!) Cymbals were closemiked with Neumann KM184, Rode NT5, AKG C451, AKG C414, Shure SM94. The huuuuuge room was pick up by 2 vintage C414 in omnimode (Thanx to Fascination Jens for the loan and the tip!) The preamps you know.. Insignificant piece of equipment if you ask me. As long as they shut up and don´t get noisy, I have never heard the difference
Bass:
The bass was a Dean with Bartolini pickups, LIne thru the Digimax with a little analog splitband limiting. I only gave a serious knock with the UAD Multibandcompressor in the mix. I that was all. Sounded right from scratch.
Guitar:
The guitars were the Brown Wonder (Ibanez Blazer, early 80 with a DiMarzio Hotstack) for Dag, thru a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier with original cabinet. We used a Maxon Tubescreamer sometimes. Miked with 1 SM57. My guitars were Squier Barytone with EMG81 for a few songs, my Maverick with Tom Anderson pickups for the rest (Now sold to Another Life Andreas!!)
Vocals:
The vocals were track with the "classic Unisound mike" Audio Technica ATM4033. Digimaxpreamp and a 1176 compressor, a Waves DeEsser and some corrective eq with UAD Cambridge. Reverb was Plate 140.
The backing vox at Studio Brun was recorded with a Rode NT1A and DBX 286A preamp.
Add Guitars:
The leads were recorded with Line6 Engl Powerball emulation in the metalpack for PodXt. Some add clean guitars are GuitarRig 2
Synth:
Most synths were Native instruments softsynths, the grand piano is the Reason Piano refill. There is also a bunch of sounds from Korg X5061 and Atmosphere and Steinberg A1 (R.I.P.)
Mix:
Nuendo 2.0
PC with 3.2 ghz (Now replaced with a QuadCore 2.66 ghz Frost PC)+ 3 UAD-1 cards
Genelec 8240 studiomonitors
Dan