Sneak Peek

Ok, so I havn't put very much stuff up recently, but there hasn't been very much internet...

To make it up to you, I've posted a sneak peek of Cara's song "Fisherman's Family" in the player (you might need to use the scroll bar). It will only going to be up until I can get more recent material posted. The song will be on her new EP, so buy it when she gets them printed up! You can see some of her old songs (and buy her previous release) HERE.

There are two projects that I have posted very little info on. They came as a surprise last Friday in Raleigh, when Mike Dillon from Tron Valdez put me in touch with his roomates wo ho wanted to record. There's Matt Parsons and Rachel and Roxanne who are in a noise group called BoyZone. Both projects went really well.

Both groups were recorded in Mike Dillon's basement. It's mostly used for shows and practice, so it's a little untidy. (Mike's actually looking for someone to move in, so if you want to live in Raleigh...)
For Matt, we had his guitar going into my amplifier, which was cranked, but still sounded kinda clean. Jason Crumer, who lives in the house, was really fucking enthusiastic, and should be considered the co-producer of this particular jam. He let us pump the guitar through his big cab via my RAT pedal. That filled in the bottom end of the guitar sound. Nice work Jason. Check out Jason's website, or his band Face Down in Shit.
Matt's sister Laura plays drums. Being that the music was a bit on the sloppy side, and we were in a filthy basement, I decided to keep the drum sounds pretty raw. I used two mics: the kick mic on the beater head, and two dynamic tom mics as overheads. Most of the sound from the three songs we recorded came from a spaced pair of omni-directional mics.
Like I said, pretty raw! Appropriately wraw!

Boyzone was all done live, including the mixing. There might be some revisions, but I tried to get the piece mixed and delivered that day, so that they could edit the mix themselves and pick out the best sections of the performance. It's not the sort of thing that I can do without their input, and I'm not going to be around, so I kinda sloughed it off on them!
The ensemble was one drummer, one vocalist, and four players creating noise with feedback, samplers, mics, contact mics, cymbal, and debris (like cans, wires, metal, etc.) The drums had the same setup as before. Most of the sound was picked up by the two omni room mics, but I also spot miced what I could. The vocalist was singing into a handheld mic. ok ok ok ok...