Pics From YOUR Studio

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:37 pm

EDIT: This was originally a thread about tracking The Gorgeous Hussies. However, I think it'd be cool to see all of your pics from your studio. Please post pics from your studio or from a tracking session you've participated in and share with everyone else. I'd love to see them!

~ mrbwnstn

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Hey everyone,
I haven't been around here in awhile but I wanted to share some pics from the studio during my recent project. These are all pictures from recording The Gorgeous Hussies new album.

A cool pic of the mics we're using on the drums in the studio right now...

4 – Sennheiser MD421
Sennheiser 602
Shure Beta 52
EV RE20
Shure SM7
2 - AKG C414BULS (modified)
AKG C461B
2 - Neuman TLM103 (matched)
2 – Neuman KM184 (matched)
RODE NT2
2 – Blue Kiwi (matched)
Blue Woodpecker
Blue Blueberry

Not shown: Audix D6 and an ass load of SM57s

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:40 pm

Some more pics with the mics in action during tracking this weekend. The pics are kinda dark and sucky, but yeah...

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:55 pm

There's a lot of mics on that there drum kit. I guess more is more after all! How did it turn out?

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:51 am

The mirror.
Kind of like having one in a hotel room on the roof. But you're staying the night by yourself...

Starts with M.

lol

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:01 am

I see you had an adventure in fort-building around the bass drum.

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:48 am

I think there's another inch or two of space you could squeeze another drum mic in... Wink

How do you like those Kiwis? I've been looking into a set.

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:14 am

Yep, we had access to a lot of cool mics. We put up as many overheads as we did so we’d have options later depending on the song. The album is fairly eclectic in terms of style so we wanted an assortment of spatial options. Some turned out better than others. The Kiwis were alright but generally too bright. We set the Neumanns up in a "recorderman" set-up. However, we had some phasing issues with them and their image is just meh. The Blue Woodpecker, however, is fabulous! I wish we had a pair of those for overheads. I wouldn't need anything else. And the AKG C414's as room mics are really cool.

The tunnel (or fort as someone refered to it) in front of the kick worked out great. Just used some baffeling and blankets to get seperation. The kick ended up sounding great.

Our biggest failure, however, was using the Shure SM7 on the primary snare. While we were testing mics we liked it because it got a big beefy sound. However, it lacks that mid-high crack you get out of a 57. So we're having issues on some of our bigger rock songs trying to get a good tone on it. However, some of the more mellow tracks it got some good tone.

We have some rough, unmixed tracks I can post later if anyone is interested so you can get an idea of the raw tones.

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:17 am

This is when we were trying to decide on the right combo of mics to mic the bass cabs...

We ended up using a D112 on the 10" cone, a D6 on the 15" and also sending a direct line via an Alesis U5.

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:25 am

Nice.

Good info on the Kiwis.

I definitely have no beef with throwing everything AND the kitchen sink at a drum kit just to find out what works.

I'll be interested to hear the tracks - especially (maybe asking too much) if you could post them in stems?? All tracks indexed to 0 with say all over heads on unique stereo tracks, all snare/tom mics on their own tracks, etc?

I know, it's asking a lot, but it might be fun to listen to and then play around with...even if it's only like a 20 second clip or so.

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:33 am

Cucco wrote:

Nice.

Good info on the Kiwis.

I definitely have no beef with throwing everything AND the kitchen sink at a drum kit just to find out what works.

I'll be interested to hear the tracks - especially (maybe asking too much) if you could post them in stems?? All tracks indexed to 0 with say all over heads on unique stereo tracks, all snare/tom mics on their own tracks, etc?

I know, it's asking a lot, but it might be fun to listen to and then play around with...even if it's only like a 20 second clip or so.

Not sure if I have enough time to do all that. But I'll see if I can't bounce down a couple different mixes using the different overheads this weekend if I get some time. (We're on a time crunch. We have to finish tracking this album before August 2nd. I won't even tell you when we started.)

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:47 pm

More pics recording upright bass...

This is John the bassist for The Gorgeous Hussies ( www.myspace.com/thegorgeoushussies )

An Octava MK-012 wrapped in foam and crammed down in the bridge combo'd with a Audio-Technica AE3000. Got a pretty clear, thumpy sound.

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:31 pm

What? All of those microphones and you never considered putting a 421 on the snare drum?? You must've gone to Full Sale? Are you stupid? It's just the world's greatest snare drum microphone and you haven't figured this out yet? It's that stupid American thing where people are supposed to want choices. You have too many choices. That's like wearing 5 pairs of underpants simultaneously. Simply because you never know when you might have a truly aggressive fart? Not trying to be demeaning or demoralizing but honestly now. Phasing issues? No? Really? Gate out of here!

I'm gating out of here!
Ms. Remy Ann David

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:19 am

RemyRAD wrote:

What? All of those microphones and you never considered putting a 421 on the snare drum?? You must've gone to Full Sale? Are you stupid? It's just the world's greatest snare drum microphone and you haven't figured this out yet? It's that stupid American thing where people are supposed to want choices. You have too many choices. That's like wearing 5 pairs of underpants simultaneously. Simply because you never know when you might have a truly aggressive fart? Not trying to be demeaning or demoralizing but honestly now. Phasing issues? No? Really? Gate out of here!

I'm gating out of here!
Ms. Remy Ann David

Thanks for joining the thread. You're a real peach.

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:06 am

mrbwnstn wrote:

HAH!! this picture cracks me up!

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:46 am

I just uploaded a few of the unmixed tracks from these sessions here: http://www.isound.com/old_man_johnson

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