The kit and most of the mics. We only used 18 mics this time. Barely legal teen mic action.



SSL G-series and recall sheet. I have lots of shots of the recall notes.



Neve broadcast console for delicious delicious premaps:



Outboard, Herbie and Chris's rack. (The Marshall and Z belong to the studio and weren't used.) The modules in the grey chassis at the far right are Chandler preamps. So want. So good on guitars:



Ken the with the Stingray and Chris with the reverse-silverburst Strat and my MSD Silvermachine wah:



Yours truly rocking a Les Paul:



Fiddles employed by the aforementioned:



My AC30, used as a head, running into...



...Divided By 13 4x12 with Alnico Blues. 57 and AEA R92 ribbon. In an iso boof, so no distant mic.



Matchless HC30 also employed by yours truly. Note master around 3:00:



My rig o' death for the session. Nothing, after all, exceeds like excess:



The Bogner was running into an old checkerboard Marshall 4x12 that had been loaded with V30s. Same mic configuration as the cab for the AC30 and Matchless.

Clips will follow in the appropriate forum once I've made some sense of the raw tracks.

Nicey McNice!

Donkeyshave.

We brought our Audix i5 for the whumpsnare to try and de-whumpify it a bit. There was serious talk in the control room of swapping it out for an old Supraphonic while getting toans. (Me: "what aren't you liking about it?" Jay the staff engineer: "everything." Everyone else in the room: " ") We decided we could work with it once we brought the room mics and OHs in. EV RE20 on the side of the shell, too.

Yarr, i also am not a fan of that particular snare. It is tough though, a snare being so much of a specific drummer's signature. I hate recoarding whumpy ones though.

How did you like that HC30? Compared to yer Vox, especially.

I don't think anyone actually likes recording that particular snare, especially. We really don't want to, shall we say, step on his dick though, and the snare we were considering dumping it for was something similarly big but a lot more friendly with the close mics. It works well enough for That Sound live, but it really is a bitch to record and it gets EQed heavily in the mix. But it is a signature thing, and it does work conceptually in the context of the band, so it gets brute-forced into whatever it needs to be.

Re: the Matchless and the Vox, I wish I'd been able to play them side-by-side in the same room as the amps. My reaction, hearing them through the monitors, is that the Vox is probably more aggressive and the Matchless is smoother overall. Having a functional master volume was nice. They're obviously related critters, though, and I'd have a better idea of what the real differences in behavior between the things are were I not on the clock.

It's a heavy bastard, too. It weighs more than the Ecstasy, which is actually pretty light.

Oh lord. So much seckz. Oh dear...

Try not to get anything untoward on the thread? At the very least, wipe it up when no one's looking.

First off:



Second: Close up of infamous snare? And maybe a little snidbit of a raw snare track, just to see what you are working with?

Looks odd, you hitting a LP. LP's are my favorite fiddle, but so used to you in the Strat or Tele.

Gear you are using there definitely taking the old wrinkles outta my pants

Damn it, now I want a silver burst tele

It's mine, dammit.

Seriously, it's a nice guitar. It's my main live guitar in part because of its silverburstness, and that's what attracted me to it when I saw it in the shop, but it sounds fantastic- it's a pretty heavy guitar, and the pickups are something non-standard- still Fenders; I forget what off the top of my head. I left it stock save for recently removing the neck pickup cover. It's rather thick sounding, especially for a Tele with singles. (Note also our other guitarist playing a reverse silverburst Strat. How many bands out there break out a pair of silverburst Fenders onstage? )



Oh, and to Tony: there's clips of the snare in the recording forum.

Ever since you posted the first pic of that Tele I've wanted it.


I have no use at all for a Tele though... so I'd just hang it on the wall and stare at it.

Every time I see that Snaxie has posted in this thread I'm hoping for more pornz. I thinik I'm just a glutton.

Yep I saw the clipz thread, Thanks!

ROLF... where do you get these gifs?

Oh, and the snare in question:



It doesn't look too ridonkulous in context as it's in proportion with the rest of the kit (though it's obviously a fairly deep snare). They're all big drums though; that's a 24" kick, and that's a Sennheiser 441 under the snare, which is a large microphone. The snare stand has been hacksaw'd to allow it to sit at that height. I want to say it's a 9" deep snare?

Chris shot a fucklot (hundreds) of pictures with a nice SLR camera, but I don't have any of them at the moment.

I really enjoy that photo.

I just typed in "approve gif" on google.