Re: Human Compost release another EP
Okay... drums were Audio Technica 2050 on kick and Drumagog triggering, Audix i5 on snare, Avantone ATOM on toms, and SM57 as a room mic, low and pointing away from the kit, through the DBX comp Snaxie sold me.
I originally worked out a kick ass all acoustic tone using a 57 on the outside beater side of the kick, but then I was using wood beaters and when Allen used his felts there was no definition, so I had to obtain Drumagog to bring it back.
Bass... direct and a track going through my HM-2 clone.
Guitar... Simon's guitar on the left is straight through a Peavey XXX. Eddie's on the right is once again MT-2 into my 5150. They were miced with a 57 and Avantone ATOM. Simon's tone had way more 'useful' frequencies than Eddie's so I had to use mostly 57 for Eddie and mostly ATOM for Simon to make the tones blend together better.
Guttural vocals are a uh, 58 rip off by a brand called Pyle. I saw them for sale at electronic components store for twenty bucks and impulse bought one. It is an okay mic, though the output seems low and for some reason they make a point of it having an impedence of 600 ohms? It went into the DBX also. Screams were the Audio Technica 2050.
I had to low pass the room mic a bit to make it sound pleasing... the 57 gets a real thorny sound. Used a lot of reverb on lead, vocals and drums... it was a send to the Yamaha SPX impulse in Reaverb.
Probably the quirkiest thing here is that I sent the whole mix to a cassette deck and imported it back into the computer to get some more pewp on there!