Electric Lady Land
Yesterday (Monday Sept 18) i spent all day/all night recording with Small Town Sleeper at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. This studio is the former legendary home and studio of Jimi Hendrix, and has bared witness to countless classic albums over the years. We were booked at Electric Lady for a day a few weeks back and the Black Crows were in the room next to us, and J-Lo was in the upstairs room. Anyway, the studio has a very well earned, well deserved reputation, and I love it there. We tracked drums and bass there mostly, and some acoustic and electric guitar as well. Their live room is one of my favorite on the planet.
So, i really wanted to do a video blog from there, but the live room doesnt get enough light for my webcam to film properly, my apologies. As good as the drum sounds and acoustic guitar sounds have been that we've been getting here, there's just something that a live room like that gives you that you cant get elseware, of course its got a price tag to match, as their daily rates are steep, but worth every penny and then some.
I think i cut the best sounding acoustic guitar tracks ever yesterday. I was going for a totally different thing than when we've been cutting acoustics here. The tracks cut here are supposed to be layered guitars to thicken up big choruses or start off a song. The song i cut at Lady yesterday on acoustic was ONLY acoustic guitar for the whole song, so it needed to be a whole different thing, and it was. I mic'd it was a B&K 4007 omni-directional mic, put Troy in the center of the big live room, and the mic about 4 feet away, to give me a nice balance of room and direct (especially with the omni pattern). Then into an ADL 600 mic pre, then an LA2A compressor, and finally on the way into Logic Audio, i inserted one of those MAssenburg MDW EQ plugin's on the input. The room did have this kind of obnoxious resonance around 200 hz that needed to be dialed out of the sound, but once it was, everything tightened back up, and what was left was this beautiful, 3 dimensional, well defined acoustic guitar with a beautiful natural room reverb on it. I might post a brief clip for you soon to hear. its gorgeous. Anyway, a completely different recording approach, which only proves that there are a million ways to get great sounds, you just have to figure out what your going for, and find a way to get there.
- Ken Lewis
So, i really wanted to do a video blog from there, but the live room doesnt get enough light for my webcam to film properly, my apologies. As good as the drum sounds and acoustic guitar sounds have been that we've been getting here, there's just something that a live room like that gives you that you cant get elseware, of course its got a price tag to match, as their daily rates are steep, but worth every penny and then some.
I think i cut the best sounding acoustic guitar tracks ever yesterday. I was going for a totally different thing than when we've been cutting acoustics here. The tracks cut here are supposed to be layered guitars to thicken up big choruses or start off a song. The song i cut at Lady yesterday on acoustic was ONLY acoustic guitar for the whole song, so it needed to be a whole different thing, and it was. I mic'd it was a B&K 4007 omni-directional mic, put Troy in the center of the big live room, and the mic about 4 feet away, to give me a nice balance of room and direct (especially with the omni pattern). Then into an ADL 600 mic pre, then an LA2A compressor, and finally on the way into Logic Audio, i inserted one of those MAssenburg MDW EQ plugin's on the input. The room did have this kind of obnoxious resonance around 200 hz that needed to be dialed out of the sound, but once it was, everything tightened back up, and what was left was this beautiful, 3 dimensional, well defined acoustic guitar with a beautiful natural room reverb on it. I might post a brief clip for you soon to hear. its gorgeous. Anyway, a completely different recording approach, which only proves that there are a million ways to get great sounds, you just have to figure out what your going for, and find a way to get there.
- Ken Lewis
posted by Protools Mixing at 5:35 PM
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Hello from Portugal!!!! I came across your website by accident,but it's in my favorites right now!!!! I hope some day i have the money to send you some of my band tracks for you to mix!!!! Until then keep on Rocking & Blogging!!!!
Samuel Rebelo
www.myspace.com/dawnriderdoom
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