So let's see now.
They wanted a real ambient production, but since im lacking a good sounding room i placed a Sontronics STC2 condenser two meters away from the kit, aimed at the height of the toms. That's the only channel besides the snare that I've put reverb on.
I cut all the cymbals out of that mike and then I used the standard Cubase B Reverb with a pretty wet setting, giving me a fake room to put as much of as I liked in the mix.
Other than that it's a tama starclassic kit with sabian cymbals, close mic's on everything (AKG on bassdrum/toms, sm57 on snare) and hihat and two overhang mics one on each side. (And a great frigging drummer i must add)
The bass is a Rickenbacker 4001, one channel line straight into the desk and distorted with the Guitarsuite JCM900, the other run through som old crappy amp and miced with an AKG550 microphone. When mixing the bass i eq'd the tracks to crossfade somewhere in the mids, all treble is in the distorted channel and all the bass is in the mic'ed one.
The guitars were hell to pay, Lynn is very much a pedalboard band eg they change sounds for each new riff (and sometimes guitars too).
They used laney amps through my ENGL cab with a E609 on my V30 element and a MXL 990 half a meter away from the cab, then we set up a good basic allroundsound for the amp and tweaked all the other sounds from the pedals.
The vocals is the Sontronics mic through a Presonus Eureka, nothing more to say about that.
Mixing this was acutally easier than i expected with all the different guitarsounds and so on, the guys knew what they wanted all along while tracking so I've only applied some EQ'ing, a bit of gates and compression on the drums, compression on the guitars and bass, the rest were pretty much levels.
The vocakverb is the roomworks plug that comes with SX3.
That pretty much sums my perspective from this recording up, please ask away if ive missed something
Moonlapse said:
Its fantastic. Nice to hear a non-metal mix around here for a change.
So... start spillin the beans. How'd you approach the tracking and mixing? I can hear some pretty big room sound on that kit. How'd you set that up?
Great work man!
