Fleet Foxes

[mrguitarguy]

I thought the verb could have been eq'd a little better, but then that's just me and what the hell do I know...

The thing that surprises me is that many people are treating this like it's a new sound, but it's really just a rehash of old 60's pop (same with The Shins, though Fleet Foxes songs are much better). You can tell the sound and songs are based heavily on The Byrds and CSN&Y. Still it's good stuff, better than most of what's passing for radio rock these days.

[Companda]

I find Phil Ek pretty impressive. He's also done the Shins and a heap of Built to Spill and it always sounds pretty good considering, with at least the Shins, a lot of home production going on first.

[sleestack]

Reminds me of pet sounds, but not as good of course. Good though

[robinpecknold]

Hey! I am a singer in this band and I've been on this website for the last two days reading about microphones, pre amps etc as we start gathering recording gear together to again record at home for the next one. We've rented a fairly creaky old timberframe house for a few months to get to work in... I'm a big novice when it comes to recording gear (hence my days of study here) but I think we are getting a good mic selection together.... to be fed through a small BCM 10 as the front end of a pro tools thing w/ mytek converters (gear gear gear gear). Maybe using a fostex B16 for drums. But yes aside from the disconcerting name this site has been an invaluable reference for me lately in terms of finding good mics and getting good opinions on them... But, I'm thinking about using these two ELAM 251's I got for drum sticks, I can't figure out how to plug them in to my USB port.


...If only.

On the topic of recording the LP, the reverb (all over the place) was an EMT 140 that Casey owns and has since left at Avast studios in Seattle (sorry Stuart). We did some drums at London Bridge in seattle, but a lot of that stuff didn't make the cut for the record and I think 7 of the songs were recorded fully at home, with two days of drums at Avast. When I was doing the home recording it was a stereo Neve mastering pre amp and a couple U87s and that was the only gear, which we'd rented from, again, Avast. Mixed at avast.

Honestly nothing interesting "home recording" wise as I had no idea what I was doing. Hopefully with this big open space we have and some good old mics, I'll have more stories from the next one. Blumlein'in the coles 4038s is fun.

Thanks for the kind words but all credit for an appealing sonic character goes to Phil Ek on this one, the home-recorded tracks sounded godawful!

[wakerickman]

Hi Robin!

Welcome aboard. You guys made a lovely record there.

[wakerickman]

ps: If you're looking to put together a great mic collection, you wouldn't be going far wrong if you found yourself a pair of Gefell UM70's. I recently picked up a pair from a nice fella in Vienna. Exceptional microphones.

[decibike]

Hi Robin, Great to have you here. Thanks for the info on the record. I was impressed by your show at the crossing border festival in the Hague. Great album. thumbsup

[Andmoreagain]

Hey Robin,

I would just like to take this opportunity to join the chorus of praise for both the album and the Sun Giant EP. Both fantastic works.

Can I just hijack this thread to ask you a quick question? Have you ever heard anything by the Liverpool band Shack (aka The Strands)? As I hear alot of affinities between you and they.

Here's a song from their third album. Have a listen - I have a feeling it will be right up your street.

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Best of luck with the second album.