Shearwater “Rook” recording, day 5
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03:18:23 pm on November 5, 2007 | # |
Now today was more like it — very productive and fun. We finished three master takes today, “5/4″ (working title), “The Lost Boys”, and “Home Life”. “Home Life”, a 7-minute long, monotonous (in a good way) epic was especially uplifting, because everyone was convinced we would spend days trying to nail it. Instead, the band nailed it on the first take. We did a second take, but it was no better so we stayed with the first.
Both “5/4″ and “The Lost Boys” were done w/ Jonathan playing guitar in the room w/ the drums. I used a Sony C48 and a Beyer M260 through Wunder Audio mic pres. The Sony has a fuller low-end, while the M260 provides midrange detail and clearer top-end. Mixing the two signals will allow us place the guitar in the mix without using a ton of EQ.
Jonathan plays “Home Life” on acoustic guitar, so I moved him into the iso booth with Kim and moved the KM84’s from the piano to his guitar, one on the neck and another on the lower right of the body. I left them patched into the Daking pres and the Manley ELOP limiter, and the result was a nice present sound with plenty of detail and clarity.
Not much else to say!
