3 days at Studio Litho
- marqueemoon
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3 days at Studio Litho
Hey OSG. My band Half Tail spent a long weekend at Studio Litho here in Seattle tracking EP #2. Here are some pics.
our Engineer Sam
fun console details
POV from my station for live tracking
my guitars plus Sam's guild
James's station for live tracking
the Republic of Aaron
Carl-land
rack o' dreams
pedalville
ampburg
our Engineer Sam
fun console details
POV from my station for live tracking
my guitars plus Sam's guild
James's station for live tracking
the Republic of Aaron
Carl-land
rack o' dreams
pedalville
ampburg
- Larry Mal
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
Looks like a lot of fun, thanks for sharing.
Back in those days, everyone knew that if you were talking about Destiny's Child, you were talking about Beyonce, LaTavia, LeToya, and Larry.
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
It's a damn playground. Impressive stuff.
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
Looks great.
And good timing: you beat Snopacalypse ‘22!
And good timing: you beat Snopacalypse ‘22!
- marqueemoon
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
The mic selection in particular was pretty bonkers. I was not expecting that.
We actually ended up using only our own amps (the Supro, Swart, and the black At Mars Specialist head and cab). The studio’s were cool, and maybe if we had more time we would have experimented more, but ours just worked right off the bat.
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
Yeah, it was just starting to come down when we were wrapping up on Sunday.cestlamort wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 8:36 amLooks great.
And good timing: you beat Snopacalypse ‘22!
You did some of your album here, didn’t you?
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
Awesome! Looks like a great time was had by all.
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
Yes, we tracked drums (for five or so songs) there. By "we", I mean "Michael" while "I" sat on the couch and stayed out of the way, as it should be.marqueemoon wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 9:28 amYeah, it was just starting to come down when we were wrapping up on Sunday.cestlamort wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 8:36 amLooks great.
And good timing: you beat Snopacalypse ‘22!
You did some of your album here, didn’t you?
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
Haha.cestlamort wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 7:19 pmYes, we tracked drums (for five or so songs) there. By "we", I mean "Michael" while "I" sat on the couch and stayed out of the way, as it should be.
Kind of like drummers do when the pedals come out.
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
very cool, love the API desk!
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
If it were me they probably would’ve been on all the tracks
Nice desk
Edit: Or maybe not. I just spotted the BCM-10(?) sidecar.
Nice desk
Edit: Or maybe not. I just spotted the BCM-10(?) sidecar.
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
Tell us more (if you want) about the signal path for the bass. I'm always interested how people choose to record electric bass and I didn't see a cabinet in the room, so that made me curious.
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Re: 3 days at Studio Litho
Sure. I’m a bass player myself in another band and love nerding out on this stuff.
Bass was recorded both amp and direct. The DI was a Ridge Farm Gas Cooker tube DI, and the amp was a reissue Ampeg Portaflex fliptop with the head and 1x15 cab separated. The cab was miced up in the basement. Not sure of the mics or pres used. I think a FET 47 of some kind?
I know there was some LA-2A going when tracking, but I’m not sure if that got printed.
Aaron usually plays live completely clean, but on one song the bass hit my EQD Bows before the amp for some extra grit (DI still clean-ish).
From what Sam said this setup is the go-to here and they’ll swap things out if the band requests it or the sound isn’t working, but for us it sounded great.
The Ric and P got equal time at 2 songs each. Live, Aaron only plays the P like a sensible person.