NineObjects-Headshots-ChorusVocals

[bryancook]

Thanks for being here Tchad, I've never met an engineer worth their salt who isn't a big fan of yours. Even if their style has nothing to do with your style, you are obviously one of the most respected engineers in the biz.

On the song "Headshots" on Suzanne Vega's Nine Objects of desire you have an incredible vocal sound on the chorus (first appears at 0:55seconds) the lyric is "in what you see"

It sounds out of phase, but its mono compatible! How in the world do you do this?!? Is it the Hughes SRS (I asked Scheuble and Zook about it) but I can't get that Hughes box to function like anything but that lame super stereo (i.e. out of phase) home consumer stereo button. After all the hughes SRS was meant to be a consumer home stereo thing, and thats all I can get it to act as.

Second question: how do you get that swishy tom tom sound that is on so many of your mixes? It sounds like you recorded the toms with t-shirts over them and then put the toms through an envelope filter or something? its a dynamic effect, not a modulating one. sorry to be vague, with no specific example but its on a lot of your mixes- i hope you know what i mean, hope i'm making sense.

thanks Tchad.
-bryan.

[tchadb]

Originally Posted by bryancook

Thanks for being here Tchad, I've never met an engineer worth their salt who isn't a big fan of yours. Even if their style has nothing to do with your style, you are obviously one of the most respected engineers in the biz.

On the song "Headshots" on Suzanne Vega's Nine Objects of desire you have an incredible vocal sound on the chorus (first appears at 0:55seconds) the lyric is "in what you see"

It sounds out of phase, but its mono compatible! How in the world do you do this?!? Is it the Hughes SRS (I asked Scheuble and Zook about it) but I can't get that Hughes box to function like anything but that lame super stereo (i.e. out of phase) home consumer stereo button. After all the hughes SRS was meant to be a consumer home stereo thing, and thats all I can get it to act as.

Second question: how do you get that swishy tom tom sound that is on so many of your mixes? It sounds like you recorded the toms with t-shirts over them and then put the toms through an envelope filter or something? its a dynamic effect, not a modulating one. sorry to be vague, with no specific example but its on a lot of your mixes- i hope you know what i mean, hope i'm making sense.

thanks Tchad.
-bryan.

I'll have to listen. I don't remember what it is on Headshots.
Toms, I'm not sure. I do use light towels on drums often. So maybe it's that plus the evil compression.

[bryancook]

Originally Posted by tchad blake

I'll have to listen. I don't remember what it is on Headshots.

thanks - i've been dying to know how to get such a wide image but for it also to have a center!

[toomanyorgans]

I'm also curious as to the approach used to record 2 drummers as most of the tracks on that record feature two drummers it seems... jerry marotta, pete thomas, and yuval gabay from soul coughing on a couple I think too.

[tchadb]

Originally Posted by toomanyorgans

I'm also curious as to the approach used to record 2 drummers as most of the tracks on that record feature two drummers it seems... jerry marotta, pete thomas, and yuval gabay from soul coughing on a couple I think too.

They were seperated acoustically, but could see each other. It wasn't a problem in any way.