this has to be one of my favorite projects to date..
the band is calles BAD LOVERS..
the music is similar to that of YOUNG WIDOWS,THE JESUS LIZARD,INK AND DAGGER ect..
awesome right?
anyways.. this was a last minute 2 day project meant to be a demo for this relatively new band feature members of restrained.
the heart of this recording is the vibe factor.. i had a vision from the get go for this ..
they wanted to record live which im not really set up for right now , so the best i could do was to get a live sound utilizing what i had to work with .. the drum set was a huge fibes acrylic kit with a sweet 70's ludwig suprasonic snare.. .. i really wanted to utilize the studio space for this project, if i had the resources i most definetly would have used several room mics but given the constraints present i decided to close mic everything as usual but opted for a single mono room mic.. a cool trade show find by the company ALCATRON , it's a pretty basic chinese ribbon mic that's seen better days.. without a second thought i simply placed it in it's given shockmount and nestled it in the bottom half of a extra drum throne sitting a few feet from the kit.. as it turns out this mic captured most of the kit with that "vibe" i was looking for , i compressed it pretty hard with a ultrafunk compressor and let it sit in the dead center of the mix.. next , i grouped the overheads and sent them to the ssl ch strip with a little eq and compression . i also added a nice room reverb .. thats pretty much it for drums.. the kit sounded huge in person and i think it sounds huge recorded which im very happy about.. next was guitars.. the head was a awesome marshall mk been fed by a rickenbacker , well why mess with success right? i kept the ribbon mic active close to the floor and added another dynamic mic close to the center cone of a speaker as well as a ldc a few feet back .. the band only has 1 guitar player so i split all 3 signals and panned them accordingly with a very fast delay to fatting things up .. next was bass... which im sorry to say is TOP SECRET . jazz bass,good bassist = thats all im going to say .
for the vocals i was a little stumped. it needed that punch , a little something to stand out ... well what better then a room sound for such a interesting singer right? i placed a audix om2 about 8 inches from the singer as well as a ldc about 4 feet away .. i compressed the ldc pretty hard and let the audix get the up close subtle touches from the singer... in the long run , the main vocal track is from the distant mic with no added reverb , just the natural room sound and a nice hard compression thanks to the waves rcomp . mix wise, there wasnt much too it, get everything to sit well together, and compliment eachother and make sure the vocal was just another instrument in the whole sea of things going on ..
thats it for now, i hope you like it.
www.myspace.com/badlovers
