Tonight's session was pretty much just for fun. Eddie Ciletti, the analog techniques instructor contacted me, asking if we'd like to play for his class. And we're not usually one to turn down cool things like this. So if we can get a couple tracks out of the deal, cools. We're in.
We arrived and set up around 6pm, when the class starts. Eddie had us all set up in the hallway, since it offers a pretty great natural reverb. He put on mic on the drums. Yup. One. It was an omnidirectional mic on top of the kick, seemingly pointed at my crotch. Not so strangely, that's how it was referred to in all of Eddie and the class's notes -- the crotch mic. Nice.
There was a mic on Brandon's bass cab and there were two ribbon mics (bi-directional) on the guitar amps, which also served as room mics. It was an interesting setup. Anthony did vocals in the doorway to the studio, which served as a sort of isolation booth. It was pretty cool.
We tracked two songs tonight - "Sledgehammer" and "Clone You." We played them live with a possibility of overdubs later on.
Not much more to tell. It was fun. Studio stuff always is fun.
UPDATE (8/17):
It turns out the tracks didn't turn out as well as we had hoped. We are so used to playing those songs so heavily that we overplayed in the recording. It just didn't sound that great. It wasn't Eddie's fault. We just overplayed for that setup and we didn't realize it until it was too late.
Oh, well. That's too bad. But for you savvy people who like to seek things out, there are currently files of the poorly played songs that will never be released somewhere on the Internet right now. That is your challenge, if you wish to accept it.
