Tool 10,000 Days

[ElektricEyez]

Wasn't sure which thread to put this in, but I thought this was a cool article to read!

http://mixonline.com/recording/projects/audio_making_tools_days/

 

[Syle]

that was a fantastic read, thanks!

 

[Zombietakeover]

Explain a little bit more what he is doing here with the vocals.....im dumb


If I was gonna distort Maynard's vocal, I would have him sing into his main mic and a highly distorted SM57 at the same time — a tape-them-together kind of deal — and then run them in a parallel chain so I could separate them and track them to two tracks. Then I could add any kind of gain that I wanted by bringing up the 57.”

 

[broken81]

Thanks for posting that link.... Great read

 

[G-Wrath]

Thanks for that dude. I've always been curious about how that album as recorded. It's such awesome quality all round. The mastering is phenomenal IMO.

 

[TheDude]

Explain a little bit more what he is doing here with the vocals.....im dumb


If I was gonna distort Maynard's vocal, I would have him sing into his main mic and a highly distorted SM57 at the same time — a tape-them-together kind of deal — and then run them in a parallel chain so I could separate them and track them to two tracks. Then I could add any kind of gain that I wanted by bringing up the 57.”

2 channels. One clean large mic and one distorted 57. Blend according to taste.

 

[ElektricEyez]

I love how they used as little EQ'ing as possible, but instead changed mic's to find the sound. I wondered about the SM57 and Condensor mic technique myself. Not so much how they did it, but how did they distort the SM57; did they pump the gain to distort it, or did they run the mic through a distortion box/effect? It was nice to know what mic Maynard uses too. I had always wondered, because when I saw them live; the tone in Maynards vocals sounded a whole lot like the album, which is something you don't always hear when a band performs live. Usually the vocals are tweeked and overdubbed so much that the vocals on the CD is waaaaaaay different than a live performance - which I find a little annoying, but that wasn't the case with Tool. I wonder what he uses live.

 

[tarnationsauce2]

I don't know what mic he uses live, but I saw that he uses an Avalon 737 preamp live.
When I saw them at the Paramount theater last year, I looked at the FOH rack and I saw a 737 with "MAYNARD" written on masking tape just below the vu meter.

Here is a pretty big shot of Maynard's live mic. I can't tell just by looking, but maybe someone else can tell what it is?
http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/1ba3/Maynard Keenan (1) 1.jpg

 

[Exocaster]

Here is a pretty big shot of Maynard's live mic. I can't tell just by looking, but maybe someone else can tell what it is?
http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/1ba3/Maynard Keenan (1) 1.jpg

Audix OM series? In a shockmount?

 

[Syle]

2 channels. One clean large mic and one distorted 57. Blend according to taste.

how does one distort a mic without feedback? i am assuming the distortion from over usage of gain...?

 

[2012]

Here is a pretty big shot of Maynard's live mic. I can't tell just by looking, but maybe someone else can tell what it is?
http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/1ba3/Maynard Keenan (1) 1.jpg

I think it's an AKG C900M.