Tracking bass guitars is seemingly straight forward, yet it actually depends on what kind of sound you want from it. Here I'm recording a Squier by Fender - Stop Dreaming, Start Bass VI baritone guitar and I'm willing to get a quite aggressive tone. I'm plugging it into my beloved Boss CS3 compressor and a Crowter Hot Cake overdrive. From these two pedals it goes into a Trace Elliot AH250 vintage head driving a Laney Amplification 1x15 cab, miced up with an AUDIX D4 straight in axis and a Sennheiser vintage MD441 picking up just the HF horn. No D.I. at all and the feedback means the Bass VI just wants to scream...
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Last week i had the pleasure to have master Narayan recording a full gong concert at Think ahead studio using eight microphones. Here's Narayan showing his beautiful cymbals.
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It takes a few attempts to lay down a good solo... This one is for a new song of the *Britannica" project.
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Special session today at Think Ahead Studio, recording master @spazio_yoga_e_gong Narayan's gongs.
I'm using two (very inexpensive) T-Bone ribbons and two @oktava_russia MK-12 condensers as close mics, two russian ribbons as close ambient mics and two more Oktava MK-12 in Omni pattern as far ambient mics. All goes straight into the @john.w.oram T-16 preamps and to @avid.protools through the @antelope_audio Orion 32+ converters.
Juicy sounds!
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When picking up sounds (especially amplified guitars, basses and keys) it's crucial where to place the microphones and which ones to use. I prefer to blend an off axis condenser (an Audio-Technica EMEA AT4040 in this case) and a ribbon (a vintage #reslomic here) and then play with phase and distance without overloading the speakers.
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I guess I was born with music in my head and that's the way it's always been. The thing I love the most is to pick someone else's blink of an idea and morph it into a complete piece of music....and I love to dance too, on my own, in my studio.
Here I'm giggling at this new song I'm producing for a project involving Japanese Martian Coppé and myself. The orchestral sounds come from the stunning Spitfire Audio BBC London Symphony Orchestra library. I'm loving it!
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Today I'm prepping this wonderful vintage Wüllner & Sohn upright piano for tomorrow's session with piano player Fabio Barnaba . It takes quite a long time to tune it properly but the whole process is very fascinating and mesmerising: there's so many intricate nuances between the huge number of vibrating strings, and each of them needs to be cured and taken care of just like a toddler with all his/her delicate aspects working all at once. It's a father/mother's job, really, as with any instrument we choose to play with and any human being we choose to deal with. "Taking care" is the key...
Looking forward!
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All ready for tracking guitars at Think Ahead Studio using a Fender 1966 Super Reverb miced up with a vintage Reslo ribbon and an Audio-Technica EMEA AT 4040 condenser.
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All ready for tracking guitars at Think Ahead Studio using a Fender 1966 Super Reverb miced up with a vintage Reslo ribbon and an Audio-Technica EMEA AT 4040 condenser.
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Tracking a @fender_squier_official Baritone guitar through a @jetcityamps 50 head and a @peaveyelectronics Vintage King 4x12 cab and a Jet City 2x12 @eminencespeakers loaded cab. Both are miced up with a @shure #sm57 and a Russian handmade ribbon on one cone each.
The overdub session is for the new album by Italian singer songwriter @piero_campi
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Studio sheet and layout for today's session at Think Ahead Studio ...
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All ready for tracking guitars at Think Ahead Studio using a Fender 1966 Super Reverb miced up with a vintage Reslo ribbon and an Audio-Technica AT 4040 condenser.
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