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Adam, most of the tracks to the Neotek were a mixture of the Apogee DA 16X and the Aurora. I sold the Apogee and now subgroup 16 outs from the Aurora to the desk and like it even better. It sounds pretty much the same but is way easier to recall.
Wolffy, I don't think any of the bass tracks for these songs were recorded the same. There were four different bass players during the course of the album! For Run I remember micing an Ampeg SVT tube version and mic'd it with a 57 for the high end growl and an ATM 25 for the lows. I also had a DI which got processed with some sort of sansamp thing. I had a mix of those two for RUN.
Besides track [edit 2 Armageddon Soul] which was mastered by Tom Baker, I mastered the whole album using a combo of NSEQ-2 hardware/URS API Graphic software EQ, the RMS 755 Comp, and the Waves Desser. During mastering I tried to keep the master as close as possible to mix sound, and definitely worked on keeping the punch. Eq wise I never went over a db anywhere, the most compression used was about 2 db (most songs averaged 1 db). I didn't use any peak limiters at all. And of course the Proac Studio 100s and Perreaux amp was a big part of the deal. I love mastering and am happy to say that I'm launching a new mastering website affiliated with indie label Yellow Matter Records soon. So start contacting me about your mastering needs! Its fun stuff!
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