This sounds awesome. Tell us more about what you used to get there!
-Greg
Thanks Greg!
Drums were...
Octava mk012 overheads in spaced pair and sm7 on the hats. Then I took samples of the snare and toms with sm57. I forgot what kind of drums we used but they were nothing great. I used my digi002 mic pre's (bla modded) and then used a behringer ada8000 for the drum triggers and room mic. The room mic was just one mic, which was a BeyerDynamic mc832. I put that strait in front of the kit like 6ft back. Then I used Waves SSL channel strip plugins on all of the drums. Then that went to a buss with dverb on it. I bussed the overheads separate and used a plate reverb on that buss (Brian Hood turned me on to this). I mentioned the Slate samples i blended in post above.
Guitars...
We used a cheap ass 6 string Greg Bennett guitar on this track that I had to setup for drop A tunning. I'm surprised how good it turned out but I took the time and set it up properly and we used 58's 7 string set and dropped the high string. I bought a 7 string Schecter c7 the next day because of all the shit guitars people were bringing in, like this one. So the other song I tracked for these guys is the Schecter c7 and sounds Amazing. Next I used a Countryman Type 85 dir box and that into my Digi002 mic pre. Then I used Pod Farm on the guitars with the Diamond plate and trendplate cab and tube screamer.
Bass...
We had to borrow a Schecter bass from another local band and I do not remember the model. The band for some reason only bought a new Low E (A) string for the bass. So i made them track all the bass lines only on the top string. I know I'm a dick right
but I was not about to let them ruin this project with shit bass strings. The bass had active pickups and the garage I use has some huge problem of making bass guitars with active pickups buzz like there is no tomorrow. So the bassist had to like move around for 10 minutes and find the spot were the buzz was minimal and stay there the whole time tracking. ahhh good time in my shit studio! Bass went to type85 dir box then to digi002 mic pre. After tracking I used Uad Preflex and L1 limiter and also a eq before the Limiter cutting a bunch of low mids and also a high pass at like 40-50hz.
Vocals...
Used a sm7 into digi002 mic pre and smashed to hell with rcomp 20-1 ratio and then a eq with a high pass at 150hz and also a shelf boosting some highs around 4k. Then that was to a buss with some dverb room verb on it.
Thats about it I think, and if i forgot anything please feel free to ask.....
