Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Summer Flannel Recording Sessions



As mentioned in a previous post all that remains to be done for the Summer Flannel album is to record the bass lines and do the final mixing and mastering.  Various events have conspired from illnesses (remember that nasty virus making the rounds about a month ago?) to scheduling conflicts to slow down the process.  After what has seemed like an interminable eternity Kelley Bridgewater and David Jones have finally managed to carve out some time to get the bass lines recorded.

On the trip to Kelley's heavy fog began to roll in setting a surreal back drop for the evening's recording session.  It seemed fitting that the final bass tracks for Summer Flannel would emerge from the fog to take shape on a Wednesday evening.




Kelley and David had decided ahead of time to record three separate simultaneous signals in order to give themselves abroad range of choices to select from when mixing and mastering.  As is standard practice they took a raw bass signal but also used David's MXR M87 Bass Compressor for track one.  The second track was a full wet signal from the pedal board running into a Bugera Veyron BV1001M where the bass head's DI was utilized in the pre as opposed to the post position.  The last track was the full pedal board into the Bugera Veyron connected to a Mesa/Boogie Subway 112 mic'd in an isolation booth.



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