Individual Tracks
The following audio clips make up the complete mix.
Play Clip
Source
Microphone
Preamp
Drum Overheads
Earthworks SR30 Pair
Sebatron vmp-2000eVU
Snare Drum Top
Shure SM57
API 3124
Snare Drum Bottom
Shure SM57
RME Fireface 800
Kick Drum Back
Shure Beta52
API 3124
Kick Drum Front
Shure SM58
ADK AP-2
Rack Tom
ADK A-51S
Sytek MPX-4aii
Martin Acoustic L
ADK Vienna II
ADK AP-2
Martin Acoustic R
Shure SM81
API 3124
Martin Acoustic Bass Guit
ADK A-51S
Sytek MPX-4aii
Acoustic Bass Guitar DI
Fishman Transducer Pickup
Groove Tubes Vipre
Description
The converters were an Apogee AD16X and RME Fireface 800. All tracks were recorded simultaneously but the drums were in a different room than the guitars (to avoid massive drum bleed in the guitar mics).
The Snare and Bass DI were lightly compressed by an Empirical Labs Fatso on the way in. Other than that, none of the tracks have added effects (no added EQ, Compression, or Reverb). The only adjustments were volume and panning. The tracks were recorded in Samplitude V9 Pro at 24/96 and mixed down to 16/44.1 .WAV with POW-r#3 dither.
The band is Canoe (vocals and additional instruments will be added later).
The hissing, that's most noticeable in the beginning, is coming from the Fishman Pickup on the Acoustic bass (see clip number 10). It was a noisy pickup, but the hissing noise was mixed out later with a little EQ and noise reduction software.
