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Originally Posted by Einar  Hey Cory,
Thanx 4 the inside info... I´ve listened to the Genesis album many many times all the way through and I´m a big fan of JFAC.
Any additional info on those sessions would be greatly appreciated, like for instance how´d you do the Guitar tracks? (amps, cabs, pres, mics etc...)
What mic/mics did you use for vocals?
Also, the extremely precise timing of each drum hit, how much time did it take you to quantize all the drums?? (do you go through that 100% before you track any of the other instruments?)
Good job!! 
Peace.  |
Thanks!
I'm pretty sure Andy used some re-amp'd 5150 tracks in the final mix, and I'm not sure what of the tones we recorded ended up in the final mix. We used a VHT Deliverance and a Krank Krankenstien with Ibanez guitars and EMG pickups through a Mesa Traditional Slant cab with V30s. Mics were a 57, MD421, and Royer R121 all lined up to be blended together later. Like I said, not sure exactly what ended up in the final mix because I was just trying to give Andy Sneap plenty of options.
Vocals were just a Beta 58 through a Universal Audio 2108. I cranked up the input gain so that the pre was saturating and distorting when Jonny was digging into his vocals (which is pretty much 100% of the time). When tracking metal/hardcore vocals, I'd much rather put the mic in the singer's hand and sacrifice some audio fidelity to achieve better emotion and energy.
Drum editing took several hours per song, but that's probably more due to the fact that I hadn't worked on anything quite as technical as "Genesis" and was still developing my editing workflow. I was also trying to keep things sounding realistic so it probably took a bit longer than it would have if we just threw up Soundreplacer or something and called it a day. I did all the drum editing before we tracked anything else. I had a PT rig at home; I'd take the hard drive home from the sessions and edit drums every night. It was a lot of work but it was a great experience for sure.