Friday, March 18, 2011

de tres días: el equipo: por una parte (The Equipment: Part One)

Just so were clear, I don't speak Spanish.  I use the google translator, and then post it directly as my title.  The reason? Everything sounds more epic in Spanish. 

I'd like to take a few posts to talk about the equipment that we're using in the blogrimage.  The first featured item is the Presonus FP10 Firewire Interface.  This is what we plug our instruments into in order for the computer to be able to record our music.  Neat! 

Here's a poorly shot video, filmed by an incredibly tired Joe Schmidt of an also tired Dominic Leon after recording drums:



As I said, we recorded drums last night.  We only had short amount of time to do it, and we didn't quite finish.  Dominic played for the verses and chorus's, then I took over for the bridge.  Even though Dominic is a much better drummer than I am, we determined he had too much soul to play the bridge.  Below is a pic of our set up. 


For those of you that are recording nerds, we used 6 mics: 1 kick, 1 snare, 2 Tom, 2 overhead.  We couldn't find any hardware to attach the cymbals to the stands, so we had to make do with whatever we could find, which included "Life" bracelets, tape, and hair ties.  Oh, and we recorded in our churches storage area.  Classy. 

cambio y fuera

2 comments:

  1. you must get one helluvan accoustic profile off those large wooden serving bowls and glassware...I hear Arcade Fire recorded the Suburbs in a church.

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  2. And The Suburbs won a freakin' Grammy!

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