NYC’s The Babies were in the house all last week with producer Rob Barbato (Darker My Love, Cass McCombs) and engineer Drew Fischer. Analog tracking, timeless hits a-making.
The Richie West Band
This past weekend The Richie West Band began tracking their album of country songs of the late Richie West. All-analog, all-live, this project took shape immediately and is sounding great. More to come on this and a future release!
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The Sundelles
NYC’s The Sundelles are in the house for the week hitting analog tape for a new record engineered by Drew Fischer, and produced by Rob Barbato. Described as ‘The Cure meets Felt’, this record is shaping up to be a great one.
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January 2012 – New Year, New Gear, Fresh Ears
Things are ramping up to be a big year here at company. Lots in store for the studio sonically, visually and “functionally”.
Music:
Let’s start with all the work we’ve been doing with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson…We’ve been tracking Miguel doing loads of strings and orchestra arrangements for upcoming albums by The Gaslamp Killer, Dark Angels (Deantoni Parks and Nicci Caspar), Dexter Story. Many exciting projects for Miguel (and us!) on the horizon this year as well.
On another note, we recently launched Miguel’s website as well (we wear many hats here). Miguel has played on over 300 albums for a wide range of artists and we attempted to capture that essence with his website. Check it out.
Next up is Joey Dosik. We’ve done a stack of all-analog tracks with Joey starting back in the late fall. The songs sound spot-on and are coming along great and we expect him to start rolling out these tunes in 7″ form (!) by this spring. More on that later.
The Star Maps record has been mastered by Mark Chalecki for release this coming spring. Another analog-recorded record done all here at company. Very happy with the way this one turned out.
Mixed a couple tracks for Damin Suarez and his band Go West Young Man. Sounding great and ready for early February mastering.
The Damselles & The TC4 were in for a few days tracking a new record with former Capitol Records engineer Paul Smith. We think it went well! Expect a new release in the coming year.
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Radar Brothers
Mixing in the Digital Age, A Love Story.
The last couple weeks has been a mixing whirlwind here with Radar Brothers. After repeated blows to Jim Putnam’s studio from the solar flares as well as the fallout from Mercury being in retrograde, the mixing sessions have been moved over here to company.
But before moving, we got down to some direction-setting tests on capturing an analog mix in the digital domain. (One of the casualties of the solar flares was the 1/2″ mixdown deck over there, so we needed a Plan B). Answer: Capturing the analog mix through Universal Audio 2192 running Pro Tools at 96k. Yes.
Digital vs. Analog
Each song has been mixed to both the 1/4″ 2-track as well as directly captured by a laptop using the UA 2192 converter at 96k. We have been comparing both mixes and for the most part we have been choosing the digital version. Since this was an analog recording, we didn’t feel the need for the extra analog goo that usually imparts a finishing touch on a mix. The full resolution sound of the 2192 has been very impressive.
Also noted is the Chameleon Labs 7720 Buss compressor. We’ve been using that for the 2-mix and it has also been shining like a bright new penny. Just lopping off a few dBs from the top and all is well.
Is that enough gearSpeak for you? If not, contact us. There’s plenty more where that came from.
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