Available for your listening (dis)pleasure here are several untouched tracks recorded during one of our typical practice sessions, all of which take place in a heavily egg-cartoned garage. This list of available songs will be added to as it's currently just a small collection we were trialling whilst setting ourselves up in the Bandcamp site.
Anyway, my memory of the recording process (which has since been torn asunder due to various gear and member rearrangements) was something akin to the following (bear in mind that all sounds were run into an antiquated, relatively-limited SunKing 10-track mixer):
Vocals went into our PA system and were recorded as they exited one of the two speakers via a dangling microphone that'd been hung from the rafters. This same microphone also captured the electro-acoustic guitar as it went through the PA also.
The main electric guitar was played through a replica VOX AC-30 amplifier and the resultant noise was caught via a microphone positioned on a stand directly in front of it, 40cm back.
Bass was collected by another dangling (and often swinging) microphone.
Microphones situated around the drum kit involved one for the kick drum, one general overhead + cymbals, one for the toms + ride cymbal, one for the snare + rotos ... although on occasion I'm sure more were employed.
All of this noise information was then collected into the SunKing (mixed as it went in because none of the tracks could be isolated and altered after the fact) and sent directly to Cool Edit on our computer. The multitude of subtlities that needed to be controlled as a result of this convoluted process were painstakingly organised and re-organised by our now ex-bassist.
Much of this process has since been altered due to the recent purchase of a new mixing desk. Sadly, however, (and as mentioned previously) our bassist/recording guru has since left the building and we've essentially had to start over. Some of our last recordings were done with the vocals being recorded directly into the new mixer, although issues arose when attempting to run another lead from the PA such as the guitar. This was suspected to be related to conflicts regarding cannon-cannon and cannon-jack combinations. All of this will be re-assessed shortly and recording of new material shall begin in earnest after our gig on Friday.
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