Aen's studio diary SOUNDS ON p.2!!!!

[aen]

Hokay, so my new band is called "the Deracinators"

I am going to post a bunch of pixorz and words, and you will then ask me questions if i do not explain things clearly enough.




Here we are (L-R)

Matt (drums and stuff) Jordan (bass and stuff) Aen (guitar and stuff)





Here are some of the things essential to recording:




Jordan's girly marb light 100s

And Drum for us broke ass mofos





Some picture of a rasta choppin up a coconut.

We were working on Bass for "Isobel" tonight, whichis like this drone/ambient/hard rock thing about 20 mins long...we're doing the last bit, the rocky part, and Jordan decided he wanted a fuzz tone.



So we tried a lot of 'em, and he settled on the blue box, with just a little bit of the octave dialed in. My DF and US kind of sucked the bass out, unfortunately... But I have LOTS OF GUITAR left to record If I were the bass player, I would not have chosen the bluebox, it sucks some bass, too, but I'm not gonna step on Jordan's sac. Yet.


We also considered an Analog delay freakout at the end, but uh, we didnt try it tonight.

BTW, thats my bassman piggyback, it's for sale. We put a big fuckin CAD kick drum mic on it for the low tonez.



I was producing/engineering all night. BOOOOORING.




Anyway, Jrdan got it in like, 2 takes, and we moved on to the drums.


Cad kick mic in teh hole LOL


CAD uh, drum type mic mounted on the snare for special "crack" sound capture.




A pair of condensers to catch the cymbals and toms, and then the "expensive condensor" about ten feet off, for teh albini tonez. I forgot to take its picture though.

As you may know, drums are really loud, so you need to isolate your ears to hear the tracks in yr headphones. MOst people would do this with isolation headphones, but we use normal headphones and a winter hat.





Drum action shots:






SOmetimes, the stuio is very frustrating, adn you have to take a hatchet to a nickel.


Anyway, Matt gort really tired from the rocking



And then Matt ook this picture while urinating.




We're not getting the best sound form the drums, I'm considering moving the room mic back quite a bit for more ROOMPH. I hate fucking around with EQ so after the fact so hopefully ROOMPH will do it. And since MAtt and I improvised the whole guitar/drone/drum take, I have to go back and learn some cockamamie guitar part that I'm sure follows no kind of musical logic,a nd has lots of F'd up changes Jordan said it was a major bitch, and that I play wierd.

Hopefully sunday We'll get the drums done, and I can unleash 85 watts of tube terror.

[metalmariachi]

Very nice Aen.
How do you like the CAD mics?
I bought a set of CAD drum mikes and love them for recording and live bass.
How come you didn’t let the bass player try your BIT? Sorry don’t remember what else you have.

Keith

[aen]

I traded my BIT for the DF.

Anyway, the best drum track I ever recorded was with the 2nd cheapest CAD drum mic kit. Ive recorded some pretty shitty ones, too, but yeah, they really kick ass. The "expensive condenser" mentioned is also CAD,a dn is sooooooooo great on vocals and acoustic instruments.

[leastwise]

I love this diary-type stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[Ghost Hip]

Bass + Blue Box =

now if you have some free time to mess around, put some vocals through a blue box, crazy stuffs.

[aen]

OH... wheres that track.....

We did a piece where I just screamed into my hellaphone and the drummer worked the pedals, none of which he knew anyting about.... Im sure there was some bluebox action in it.

[Artist]

Good stuff, man!

DIY recording is rather interesting, we actually did a 3-song demo by ourselves last october-november. Unfortunately it was a bit rushed, but maybe the next one will be better.

[aen]

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=3vH4dbLaSI8[/youtube]

DAMN! ithougth htis youtube button was sorted?

[sev]

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=3vH4dbLaSI8[/youtube]

Oh.....so you're British! And that "old pal Aen" routine is just a character that you've invented.
I get it now.

[leastwise]

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=3vH4dbLaSI8[/youtube]

bravo, good chap.

[mathias]

That is truly a LOL-worthy video.

[basti moon]

Pictures of studios is great escapism for people not lucky enough to have a good band rehearsal space

[Antero]

More pics!

[Soul Power]

Good stuff sir + especially those videos you keep making.

[aen]

Okay, we've got a shitload more pictures.

First and foremost, Matt has been learning the engineering/production side of things, and thank fucking god, I just wanna rock!







We've also incorporated a bit of my shitbox DJX keyboard intoa song, not sure how that ones shaping up, but its super mellow.




We've been doing a bit of writing as well as recording, and we put the main drum track down on thursday night,



The borked crash that is crucial to our drum tonez, for real.

And an arty shot of teh kit



which meant sunday night I GOT TO ROCK!





I kind of blew my plan to do two guitar tracks, and played some cock-assed conglomoration of the two ideas :oops:




Also matt got this sticker-



Presumably on Saturday or sunday, but he had that shit on tonight still.

Ok, heres the "far away mic"



And now some gear featured on the new deracinators song:



Lyrics on the floor, that counts as gear.



Un-nicknamed 50s classic tele.


Wah, Devi ever TP, EHX #1 Echo


PAWG



Handy dandy red marker makes sure i get that shit right.


Hoses that go "hoot hooot hoot" when you spin them




Artsy pedal shot haha






And, uh, htis is what it looks liek when i step on them.


I will admit that even though the temp tops out around 48 F down there, I took of my sweatshirt, so I wouldnt look so fat (and therefore cooler) in the pictures.