Recorded this weekend.

[smallequestrian]

Spent Friday and Saturday in the Studio, Big Al and Bongo in tow of course.. The engineer was really cool and super helpful and did his best to get around some of our personal limitations. I think the four songs we recorded turned out really well. I really like the first three songs. He ended up mic'ing my TC Electronic rig over the SVT he usually uses, said he liked how the TC recorded a lot. Played the Big Al for tracks 1, 3, 4 and the Bongo on the second one. The songs below haven't been mastered yet, but give a listen, we're excited about them, should help us get some even better gigs.


This song is the Big Al with the center pickup solo'd played with pick. Setting is the first multiband distortion, clean mix at 11, drive mix at 1 and Drive level at 2 or 3
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This song is the Bongo run through the Smart Harmony -8TH on the Line6 M9 with the source audio sending a clean boost. At the end of the song I morph from the clean boost to the 1st foldback setting in thats set at 12 on all knobs. I meant to have the M9 feeding into the SA, but forgot to change it before the recording. The M9 tracks so well though, it didn't make that much difference.
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This is a subtle effect, the first Multiband distortion with just a little drive mixed in with a low drive level, clean at noon. Big Al finger style with the neck and middle pickups.
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Last song is the Big Al fingerstyle with the middle pickup solo'd. No effects.
SoundClick artist: The Vindits - page with MP3 music downloads

 

[Yellofury]

cool vibe in the recording studio
some studios are either too sterile and leave a non creative vibe
and some are real ratty and messy
thanks for letting us in the process of recording
I love the variety of the Big Al's sounds!!

 

[oli@bass]

Thanks for posting! Looking forward to hearing the final mixes (or be able to buy the album)

 

[Stereo_Monkey]

Hey, the first user I see with a Soundblox Multiwave Bass Distortion. Are you satisfied with this?

 

[oli@bass]

Hey, the first user I see with a Soundblox Multiwave Bass Distortion. Are you satisfied with this?

Thanks for pointing that out! Just checked out the product demos and am mighty impressed. And with the above sound examples it seems that it also can cover traditional tube like overdrives.

 

[cellkirk74]

Looks like a nice studio and I liked the sounds as far as I can hear them with the little speaker here at my office.

How did the soundguy like the basses? Did you also do some clean d.i.-tracks without effects?

 

[TSanders]

Dig it Paul

 

[strummer]

Great playing and amazing tone Paul, how did he mike the TC?

 

[Bloodfist]

Good songs man, and nice playing! I dig the tone of your bass on the first song!

 

[Bean]

Very nice!!

 

[smallequestrian]

Hey, the first user I see with a Soundblox Multiwave Bass Distortion. Are you satisfied with this?

Thanks for pointing that out! Just checked out the product demos and am mighty impressed. And with the above sound examples it seems that it also can cover traditional tube like overdrives.

Its an impressive piece of kit. I actually planned on recording the first song with a fuzz pedal, but dialed in some random setting on the Multiwave and liked it so I went with it. Its now a preset.

Looks like a nice studio and I liked the sounds as far as I can hear them with the little speaker here at my office.

How did the soundguy like the basses? Did you also do some clean d.i.-tracks without effects?

We didn't do any clean or DI tracks, only mic'd. We spent some time before recording each song to make sure that the bass' sound was going to record alright and then didn't worry about having a clean backup. He didn't make much comment about the basses other than saying that he thought the tone was killer when we were testing the rig. Also, he looked at my Big Al and said, "That was funky".

Great playing and amazing tone Paul, how did he mike the TC?

Some kind of fancy looking mic right over the center, I'll have to ask him what the model was.

 

[danny-79]

Hay nice one, sounds good an the studio looks like a nice place to

 

[tw63]

Nice, thanks for sharing the details; like the tunes, from punk to "vintage" vibe. Let us know if you find out what type of mic was used.

 

[cellkirk74]

also, he looked at my big al and said, "that was funky".

:d

 

[Colin]

cool thread!

 

[five7]

Very good!!!