Vampire Weekend Vocals

[sourcekode]

These sounds stunning... beautiful use of reverb. Anyone here work on this album??

[nadumr]

i'm pretty sure it was produced by their keyboard player and self-financed

[sourcekode]

That's awesome. One of my favorite albums of the past few years

[stafs]

If i remember correctly, their album is nothing else than very well mixed and mastered demo. It turned out to be fantastic sounding, imo.

[RBATMANGLIJ]

hey Sourcekode

We used Altiverb, mostly two reverbs: the Cello Studios Bill Putnum Echo Chamber 2, and the Vintage Spring Reverb (floating on the internet somwhere)

also I rolled some of the high end off the top of the reverb

mostly mic'd with a Neumann TLM103 going directly into a Digi002

peace

RB

[hankdrummer]

and there ends gearslutz

[Quint]

Originally Posted by RBATMANGLIJ

hey Sourcekode

We used Altiverb, mostly two reverbs: the Cello Studios Bill Putnum Echo Chamber 2, and the Vintage Spring Reverb (floating on the internet somwhere)

also I rolled some of the high end off the top of the reverb

mostly mic'd with a Neumann TLM103 going directly into a Digi002

peace

RB

Where was it recorded? Mixed by you or somewhere else? I would assume ITB?

[BradD]

Yet another example of great songs and exceptional talent being far more important than gear. That is my favorite album in years. I can't believe that was a TLM103 into Digi pres and converters. I'm done making excuses for my sounds.

[sourcekode]

Wow. Thanks RBATMANGLIJ thumbsup Amazing record all around.

[Tomas1808]

Hey RBATMANGLIJ, nice refreshing album

What's that "Vintage Spring Reverb" you are talking about? Cant find it on Google. Is it a freebie?

I'm still looking for a good spring plugin but I cant find one good enough... maybe this is it.

thanks

[analogica]

the same old story....if music rules ,the sound rules....

songs are above sounds...a digi 002..haahahhahahahah this is funny,

songs can save a bad production, and even can make us think that is OK...jejeje
so talking about sound maybe like dancing about arquitecture

[bigbongo]

that's a great album, everyone loves that record in my household from 10-41 years!

lookin' forward to next one...

[mcollinge]

Originally Posted by Tomas1808

Hey RBATMANGLIJ, nice refreshing album

What's that "Vintage Spring Reverb" you are talking about? Cant find it on Google. Is it a freebie?

I'm still looking for a good spring plugin but I cant find one good enough... maybe this is it.

thanks

He might be talking about this one: Impulse responses

I also love the sounds on this record. I would love to have a run down of the recording process.

Was it live at all? Were there click tracks involved? Was there any looping going on? It definitely sounds to me like there is some sample replacement going on on some drum tracks. Was there?

[RBATMANGLIJ]

yup that is the right spring reverb, also I made the IR about 80% of its length

everything was drums first playing along to scratch tracks, and then rerecording stuff after comping the best drum takes

all of them to a click track except oxford comma

my friend chris zane told me about drumagog and i used to it on a couple songs towards the end, was trying to make stuff sound futuristic, didn't use it that much though

i mixed 8 out of the 11 songs by myself, 3 of them with help from my friends jeff curtin and shane stoneback, the ones i did myself were on PTLE, the other 3 on PTHD

all ITB, we did a song for a movie called Ottoman that I mixed with Renaud Letang in Paris and that was not ITB, was fun too! you can compare

M79 was mastered to tape, made it better, Walcott also, but i think it made it worse

middle of making the next record now, we recorded drums at avatar a few weeks ago and yes i do think things sounds better through a mixing board : )

[hankdrummer]

thanks RBATMANGLIJ !

Vampire Weekend = in the box with a DIGI 002 and a TLM 103
Bon Iver = old protools with a SM-57
M.I.A = all made in Logic, lots of things recorded in the street with a MOTU soundcard and a Rode mic

with creativity AND talent, there's no need for expensive outboard !

[chribble]

f-ing awesome

thanks for answering.

[Mike Brown]

Originally Posted by BradD

I can't believe that was a TLM103 into Digi pres and converters.

Whats hard to believe about that?

In the right hands its very easy to make professional sounds with those pieces of gear.

And the equipment was very clearly in the right hands.

Great album guys! Well done!

[dviola]

Loving the record so much. If you'd be so kind could you give any more info about recording the drums for oxford comma? One of the best drums sounds I've heard as of late.

Thanks,

Dylan

[RBATMANGLIJ]

most of the drum sound came from one mic:

Sennheiser 421 NEAR RIM OF SNARE -> A.R.T. TUBE PRE -> DIGI 002 -> DIGIDESIGN GATE PLUG-IN-> PSP VINTAGE WARMER (SLAMMED with BRICKWALL SETTING) -->ALTIVERB "VINTAGE SPRING REVERB" (JUST A TOUCH)

the room was carpeted and about 12' X 12', it was a practice room

[hankdrummer]

just a single snare mic gave the whole drum sound ?

love the new video ! great song
were you involved in the engineering of the new album ? can't wait for it

from the two songs i've heard, it sounds fatter / has more low end (at least it seemed to me), but overall you've kept the cool vibe of the first record, which i love.

i was afraid your sound would change too much going into a "real" studio, and having all these toys to mess up with ...

cheers !

[jchadstopherhuez]

Originally Posted by RBATMANGLIJ

most of the drum sound came from one mic:

Sennheiser 421 NEAR RIM OF SNARE -> A.R.T. TUBE PRE -> DIGI 002 -> DIGIDESIGN GATE PLUG-IN-> PSP VINTAGE WARMER (SLAMMED with BRICKWALL SETTING) -->ALTIVERB "VINTAGE SPRING REVERB" (JUST A TOUCH)

the room was carpeted and about 12' X 12', it was a practice room

well done !!

i just recently discovered the record. great stuff !!

anxious to hear the new stuff.

creativity and songs trump gear any day of the week.

cheers,

jchristopherhughes

[hankdrummer]

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[darkwater]

Originally Posted by hankdrummer

and there ends gearslutz

HYSTERICAL!!!

Hey, big, big fan of the record! Can't wait for the next one. Great songs and recordings. Great to know it was so homespun.

Welcome to the board! Hope you stick around awhile!

[drumzealot]

Originally Posted by RBATMANGLIJ

yup that is the right spring reverb, also I made the IR about 80% of its length

everything was drums first playing along to scratch tracks, and then rerecording stuff after comping the best drum takes

all of them to a click track except oxford comma

Man, who gives a fk about oxford comma?

Seriously, great record.

[Mark Kaufman]

Thanks for the info, RBATMANGLIJ!

"Horchata" is played daily on my Minneapolis station, greatly enjoyed by my teenage daughters and their middle-aged parents. When you can do that, you can do anything.

Best of luck and thanks for the good music!

-mk

(You're not by any chance related to any of the Minnesota RBATMANGLIJs, are you?)

[eddieb]

I'm curious if you are afraid to loose your magic from the first album if you have a big budget and famous stuidios? The first record was incredible!

[twentyhertz]

haha I love it. I stumbled across this thread because there was a used 421 being sold locally and I was trying to find out if it was a good price (it was and it's gone :/). Anyway this now means that two of the best sounding albums I've purchased recently (this one and Elbow's Seldom Seen Kid) were recorded with pretty modest gear. Awesome. Very inspiring to those of us with limited gear. Of course you can't buy talent and all that..

Great album by the way, RBATMANGLIJ.
Same as bigbongo- it's a huge fav in my house with both my kids (1 and 4 years), my wife and I, and pretty much everyone I've played it for. (tossed in an OC for you there.) Looking forward to the next one.

[awagner08]

Yea, to echo the others, this thread has inspired me. Great work on your freshmen album - looking forward to the upcoming one.

Oh and if you'd like to get in & mess around with a multi-tracked file of a Vampire Weekend tune, check this .mogg file out: Vampire Weekend - A-Punk.mogg download from Mediafire

^hope that doesn't break any rules around here. :-)

[che_guitarra]

Originally Posted by hankdrummer

and there ends gearslutz

As long as there's 'artists' in the fold that think an impressive gearlist equals talent - there'll always be gearslutz.


I love Vampire Weekend too - great music, great musicians, great ideas... great, great music!!

[utters]

Originally Posted by RBATMANGLIJ

most of the drum sound came from one mic:

Sennheiser 421 NEAR RIM OF SNARE -> A.R.T. TUBE PRE -> DIGI 002 -> DIGIDESIGN GATE PLUG-IN-> PSP VINTAGE WARMER (SLAMMED with BRICKWALL SETTING) -->ALTIVERB "VINTAGE SPRING REVERB" (JUST A TOUCH)

the room was carpeted and about 12' X 12', it was a practice room

Ahh I feel justified, I think that's the first time I ever heard a drum break and thought instantly; VINTAGE WARMER!

I was right