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Grassroots
Campaign Session Notes
Duluth
This session was a fun one. We
did the recording in Shawn’s apartment in downtown Phoenix, a smallish
space, with carpeted floors, etc. We tracked the acoustic guitars
first, I used GT44 mics up close, one above the 12th fret, the other
off the sound board, looking at the bridge area. These mics went
through the PM1000 channels, with a little eq. I also setup an Oktava
MK219 as a room mic, going through the GT Brick. Once we had the
acoustic down, we added the electric guitar parts. I used a KEL HM1 on
the amp, which was a small practice amp. The bass guitar was tracked
through this same amp, both went through the PM1000s, as did pretty
much everything except the room mic. Vocals were recorded though the
GT44, with a touch of midrange boost on the PM1000s, then the backing
vocals were added. As soon as this song was tracked, we set about
mixing, which went very quickly. I used a bit of compression, and my
usual Tape Compression algorithm on the guitars and bass. EQ was
minimal, though the reverb channel was heavily band passed between
about 800hz and 3k. I like reverb, but full band reverb tends to sound
fake. We did the whole session in under 5 hours, but it came out really
great.
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