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Originally Posted by RPiper Hi Michael
Thanks for the great insight into the Skid Row albums.. STTG Its one of my favourite things you have done..
I was wondering if you have any thoughts or memories of doing the vocals for that album ? I think Sebastians performances on that are truely out of this world, especially some of the screams he does in things like Wasted Time. I call the outro to that song the "death sequence" and when i hear his singing it almost sounds like he is channeling christ on the cross.. Well i dont really think this, but it does sound massive..
Id love to hear any memories you may have of doing this.. Were the vocals done quickly or did it take a while ? What mics, pre amps, and other signal path did you use for his voice ? Also how long did you take to mix the whole album ? And my final question is... I hope that's not too many questions ? |
Well, let's just say it was quite involved. Baz is a great performer, but having too many great tracks for comping can be a lot of work. I'm glad that you like the final result.
The mic we used was a Telefunken ELAM 251 which we rented from Royal Recorders. It was the exact same mic we had used on the first album. The mic pre was a John Hardy M-1 with output transformers. Can't remember the comressor we used at New River Studio (Larrchild, do you remember???). The console was an old Neve (#?) and we recorded to Mitsubishi 32 track digital. The mix was done at Scream Studio in LA on a SSL 6000. I think it took me a couple of days per song.
The song "Slave To The Grind" is actually the live demo we did at the end of pre-production at a studio in NJ (also Neve and Mitsubishi). It was recorded and mixed in one hour. We tried to get the same vibe when we recorded the album, but never got it, so we used the demo
Baz is using a handheld SM58 on this track