In The Studio

Sailor Steve · 10-31-11, 05:37 PM

We started our new recording project Saturday last (two days ago, October 29th). I only have a couple of pictures so far, taken with cell phones. I should be getting some more in a few days, and I'll put them up when I do.

We laid down basic scratch tracks for nine of the seventeen songs we intend to record, and since this is the only website I frequent I intend to keep a running record.

Charles the singer/songwriter and Steve the bass player.

Chris the drummer (and Charles' oldest son).

Kelly the engineer and that old fart.

Kelly with the miked-up drum kit.

And two more of Chris.

1480 · 10-31-11, 07:34 PM

Cannot wait to hear.

Torplexed · 10-31-11, 08:18 PM

Nice in-studio pics.

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Kelly with the miked-up drum kit.

What is a "milked-up" drum kit? Never heard that term before.

Herr-Berbunch · 10-31-11, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed

What is a "milked-up" drum kit? Never heard that term before.

M I K E D - as in microphone, I think.

Looking good, wonder how it sounds - time for requests: anything by Pink Floyd - preferably Run Like Hell.

Torplexed · 10-31-11, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

M I K E D - as in microphone, I think.

Looking good, wonder how it sounds - time for requests: anything by Pink Floyd - preferably Run Like Hell.

Thanks.

I either gotta get glasses or a bigger monitor.

the_tyrant · 10-31-11, 09:00 PM

New album?
good luck!

Sailor Steve · 10-31-11, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

M I K E D - as in microphone, I think.

Exactly. These days instead of "mike" the favored spelling is "mic", but "Miced up" just wouldn't work no matter how I tried.

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Looking good, wonder how it sounds - time for requests: anything by Pink Floyd - preferably Run Like Hell.

Sorry, all originals, all ours. You can get a tiny taste from the link in my sig, or by typing in 'Monkey Rum', 'Monkey Rum 2011' or 'Monkey Rum Acoustic' on YouTube. Our style varies so much I like to call it 'Folk-Rock-Country-Metal-Blues', but this one is going to be on the heavier side.

TarJak · 11-01-11, 06:17 AM

Looking foward to hearing this Steve.

Jimbuna · 11-01-11, 07:07 AM

Bring it on mate

Herr-Berbunch · 11-01-11, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Exactly. These days instead of "mike" the favored spelling is "mic", but "Miced up" just wouldn't work no matter how I tried.

Can't see a problem with miced-up drums myself.

papa_smurf · 11-01-11, 08:32 AM

Best of luck with the recording

Sailor Steve · 11-01-11, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Can't see a problem with miced-up drums myself.

Gotta love it!

To all those who can't wait, sorry but we're at the very very beginning of a very long process. Right now we're recording the songs just to get the drum tracks perfect, as they're the hardest to go back and fix if anything's wrong (as in impossible - it has to be done all over again). Then there's redoing the guitar tracks, then the vocals, then the mixing, then the final stereo mixing, then organizing the tracks in the order we want, then having pressed onto CDs, plus artwork. All this and currently we can only do it on Saturdays.

But I have some more pictures.

Engineer prep work.

Soundboards.

Processing stuff. Kelly has a computer with 24 GigaBytes of RAM. Imagine playing Silent Hunter with that!

Isolation booth for vocals.

A couple more of Chris. Here you can see all the mics, at least one for each drum and cymbal, plus two inside the kick drum.

What's odd is that there are no pictures of Clay the lead guitarist yet. I didn't take any pictures, but everybody else did.

10-31-11, 05:37 PM	#1
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	In The Studio We started our new recording project Saturday last (two days ago, October 29th). I only have a couple of pictures so far, taken with cell phones. I should be getting some more in a few days, and I'll put them up when I do. We laid down basic scratch tracks for nine of the seventeen songs we intend to record, and since this is the only website I frequent I intend to keep a running record. Charles the singer/songwriter and Steve the bass player. Chris the drummer (and Charles' oldest son). Kelly the engineer and that old fart. Kelly with the miked-up drum kit. And two more of Chris. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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papa_smurf Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: High Peak, Derbyshire Posts: 2,851 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	Best of luck with the recording __________________

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TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Looking foward to hearing this Steve.