Hey everybody.....I've been working so I'm just getting back to this thread.
bcgood....yeah, you're right. We should have the Cause and Effect stuff on our site. I have no idea why it isn't there. How'd you know about that?
Thanks to everyone for the words about the projects. I never know how many people actually care about any project, but it's good to see that people do pay attention and listen. It was fun to be one of the people contributing to such a recognizable sound.
Vocals were usually a Telefunken 251 into a 1272 and then sometimes into an 1176 or sometimes even a Symetrix 522, which is somewhat DBX like. We started their projects many years ago when we had less choices in the rack. There are other pre's and eq's that we might use now, but back then those were the choices. Some of the vocals on Comfort Eagle were actually done on a Rode NT1. We had used that for scratch vocals and then decided to keep some of the roughs....you've heard that story before....so many of the vocals were on the Rode instead of the 251. 80b board EQ was used. Sometimes compressed with a Pro VLA on the mix, although these days I would probably use the Millennia TwinCom. I MAY have had the Twin Com fro Comfort Eagle, I don't remember. For the projects that were done in Digital Performer, we often used the MasterWorks Multiband Compressor plug in for de-essing above 5k.
Trumpet was tracked either with a 414 or a U87 into the Trident pre and compressed with.....say it with me.....an 1176. Later on we used Royer 121's which is what I would grab first now. When we used a 414 we had him play a little off axis to take some of the edge off the sound.
I can't think of anything else of interest right now. For the record, now I also use quite a bit of the UA stuff: the 2192 converter, the 2108 mic pre and the 2-610 mic pre. I also got the Barefoot MM-27's a couple of months ago and they really rock.
Kirt Shearer
Paradise Studios
Sacramento, Ca
www.paradisestudios.net