What's up guys - I'm just finishing up Audio Arts Production IV here at my school, and for my final project, I didn't have the luxury of picking my fellow members because of going to NAMM. However, the random assortment actually worked out - we had a nerdy talkative wimpy-but-friendly dude, a hip-hop producer, and a metalhead (guess which one I was), and the nerdy guy suggested doing an...eclectic cover of The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby, with each of us making our contributions.
So the nerdy kid arranged the string parts and got the 5 players (bass, violin 2, viola, violin 1, cello, from L to R in the stereo field) together as well as doing main vocals (his friend came in and did the baritone/bellowing set of vocals you hear), I wrote and recorded the guitars, and the hip hop guy did the beat, and fuck, I'm really happy with it! So without further ado...
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=782553&songID=6508936
Strings were arranged in a semi-circle, with a Rode NT1-A and a Superlux CM8-HC in M/S formation pretty much in the center of the circle (in other words, take a circle, put the mics in the center, cut it in half, and the remaining half is the strings - not rocket science) into a Millennia HV-3D.
Rhythm Guitars were two tracks of JSX Ultra Channel (with KT77's) via my ESP EC-400 (EMG81) through my Bogner 2x12 w/ V30s, SM57 + MD421 on the same cone, both through an API A2D with the 2:1 switch engaged for sweet boutique coloration. Solo was my Ibanez RG through my Podxt through the API, also driven hard with the 2:1 switch.
Vox were a Rode NT1-A through the API A2D.
So any thoughts? My immediate feeling is the threshold on the limiter can come down (meaning, it should be louder), and that the vox are too sibilant, but otherwise, I'm happy (and I think the rhythm guitar tone is the best I've ever recorded
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So the nerdy kid arranged the string parts and got the 5 players (bass, violin 2, viola, violin 1, cello, from L to R in the stereo field) together as well as doing main vocals (his friend came in and did the baritone/bellowing set of vocals you hear), I wrote and recorded the guitars, and the hip hop guy did the beat, and fuck, I'm really happy with it! So without further ado...
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=782553&songID=6508936
Strings were arranged in a semi-circle, with a Rode NT1-A and a Superlux CM8-HC in M/S formation pretty much in the center of the circle (in other words, take a circle, put the mics in the center, cut it in half, and the remaining half is the strings - not rocket science) into a Millennia HV-3D.
Rhythm Guitars were two tracks of JSX Ultra Channel (with KT77's) via my ESP EC-400 (EMG81) through my Bogner 2x12 w/ V30s, SM57 + MD421 on the same cone, both through an API A2D with the 2:1 switch engaged for sweet boutique coloration. Solo was my Ibanez RG through my Podxt through the API, also driven hard with the 2:1 switch.
Vox were a Rode NT1-A through the API A2D.
So any thoughts? My immediate feeling is the threshold on the limiter can come down (meaning, it should be louder), and that the vox are too sibilant, but otherwise, I'm happy (and I think the rhythm guitar tone is the best I've ever recorded
)
Any other comments are welcome!
), and yeah, the vox, well, the high-voiced guy was our group member who came up with the idea of doing the song, so we had to throw him a bone (I didn't think the other singer was bad though).
