First night! Palatine IL with our old Pal Darren. Drowning in a sea of FX pedals and having a bunch of the most delicious beers ever.
This is Jaime. He plays guitar on 4 of our 5 new songs, and slappa de bass on one. Jaime is also an audio engineer. He recorded the Amatuer Love album that Chigliak (or whatever) is putting on vinyl this year.
This is me trying to look like an evil overlord.
Bong 2, Jaime 0.
Both times we stayed with Darren jaime hit his bong and went DIRECTLY to sleep. Ok, thats not quite true. This time he smiled at the arm of the couch and nodded his head to the beat for like 5 minutes, and then went to sleep. It was awesome.
KABOOM! We arrived at Electrical at 10am, and started setting up post-haste. By the time I emerged from the "dead room" Matt had already picked out a whole drum kit and set it up, as well as the Phatty. He grabbed an extra 18" low tom
and went with a smaller "normal" floor tom.
He ended up putting some tape on the hihats to mellow them a little.
IIRC we had 13 mics between the kit and the live room. SHOULD BE REALLY FUN TO MIX.
They put one of the room mics through this compresser that made the whole thing sound like Zeppelin. So if all else fails we'll have that one killer mono drum track. LOL
Here you can sorta see my set up. PEdals on the floor, synthy shit on my left. Whatevs, I love synthy shit. Twin reverb, and GK700>giant 15" speaker cab for amps. I use both amps for baritone and aenstandard guitar, and just the bass amp for my bassing.
Brain Joseph our main engineer for the session. We are his first recording since WINNING A FUCKING GRAMMY. We felt pretty special. He also did it for the price of "lunch."
Jaime uses an old silvertone 2x12 amp and a Peavey TNT. He uses the chorus on the TNT. I do my best not to stifle his artistic choices.
Arsenal! Mustang bass (with vintage musicmaster neck! and nice big flatwound strangs)
Squier Tele custom II with Baritone Conversion neck, no tone pot on the neck pickup.
ADH guitars Teligula. Which I fucked up modding and disconnected the neck pickup. FOund that out in the studio. BRILLIANT. Good thing the bridge sounds KILLER.
That M-audio thing runs my Minitaur synth. iPad was there just to run one sequencer track. Mixer was.... brought by mistake.
OK PEDAL ROUTING!
INput>Chameleo Looper
Loop 1: Crybaby "extra fancy" wah>Dwarfcraft INternet>Dwarfcraft Eau Claire Thunder (With features removed)>Dr. Scientist Tremolessence
Loop 2: Dwarfcraft Pitch Grinder prototype>EHX ravish Sitar>DWarfcarft Shiva with no knobs, backwards turning vloume pot in tiny box.
Loop 3: Garage Tone Analog Delay>Dr. Scientist Reverberator
>Ernie Ball Volume>Boss Tuner> Boss RC-20 Loopstation>Dwarfcarft Doublemurder >Twin Reverb
> LIne 6 DL4>Dwarfcraft doublemurder>GK700 or something
DOuble murder is a stupid little box that kills to audio signals at once. Brilliant, I know.
The view of Jaime's area from mine. We're in the Dead room, where things sound wierd, but record just fine. I call it the Hot Box though, cause it was like 1 million degrees in there.
WTF is up there?
A SKUUUULLLLL MUTHAFUKKA!
Recorded to tape, for TAPEMAGIC.
LIstening to TAPEMAGIC
Recording TAPEMAGIC
Dancing about TAPEMAGIC
Resting about TAPEMAGIC
