Heavier Than Air Flying Machines went into Cold War Studios with Rick Johnson yesterday for what ended up being a 10 1/2 or so hour session to record the album we've been wanting to do for a while. I believe Jaymes has something in mind for the title of the record, but I can't recall what he initially mentioned a couple of weeks ago. We had a great time recording there, but it was definitely grueling in terms of physical exertion. We got all of the instruments recorded as it was done live with baffles set up in the room. The only overdubs on the record will be vocals, group shouting vocals, samples and two different segments of guitar. The idea was to maintain as much of a raw live feel as possible and we accomplished that. Jaymes and I are going next Tuesday to wrap up the remainder of the vocal parts, samples and small electronic keyboard bits. We've got a decent number of options for where we want to send it out to get mastered, so that is yet to be decided. The microphone setup for the drums was much more complex than I've had on my set before. The entire microphone setup as well as a few pictures of what we did are below:
Scratch Vocals-Shure SM7B
Group Background Vocals-Audio Technica 4050
Guitar-SM57
Bass-Sennheiser MD421 II on the cab and another line ran direct.
Drums:
Hi Hat-Audio Technica AT3031
Snare(Top)-Shure SM57
Snare(Bottom)-Shure SM58
Rack Tom-CAD M179
Floor Tom-CAD M179
Kick Drum(Inside through port hole)-Audio Technica ATM25 (I think)
Kick Drum(A couple of inches off from front head)-ADK 51TC
Ride Cymbal(Underneath)-AT3031
Left and Right Overheads-Audio Technica 4050
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