New band, new recording. We spent a week at Shepherd Studios here in Albuquerque recording with Barry Goldberg from Los Angeles. Barry has engineered tons of people, from Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog to Rod Stewart and Fleetwood Mac, to Marilyn Manson. This is one of 4 songs we did.
The final mixes will happen at Barry's place in L.A. This was just a rough mix after the last session, the night before Barry flew home. I know he'll be reworking it and trimming the fat (there's a LOT of stuff in here...).
Since I'm lazy, you'll have to make due with a Myspace link (first track):
http://www.myspace.com/jonmcmillanbass
I ended up using a Pbass with TI flats (tone rolled back a little) with a JDI > Focusrite (direct) and a VT Bass > Epifani UL502/112 > Rode Classic II > Avalon Vt737 (miked). There is a touch of compression on the bass group, but not much. I won't go into the details, but the VT Bass Drive should have been turned up a little more after they moved me into the control room. It still sounds good, but the VT Bass lost some of it's input signal (and drive) due to the house engineer's inability to understand how I needed it set up. Barry understood (and why), but neither of us could get the point across to the house engineer and the Drive knob didn't get turned up to compensate for his convoluted setup... Oh well.
Anyway, don't judge the mix as it's nothing more than a preliminary mix after 4-5 hours of the last session.
Oh, and how did we get a A-list engineer to come to New Mexico? He went to high school with our drummer and they've been best friends since (25+ years).
