Stepping back to 2010

Stepping back to 2010

Its not this just this last year i have been recording songs, in fact i was half way through recording my own little album in the summer of 2010. I Ended up with around 5-6 original songs and one cover. The recording setup was very simple and used only basic equipment. 

Instruments

Guitar wise i used a Epiphone Flying V and a cheap honer strat copy into a line 6 spider 2x12. Very little of this was a mic setup, i ran a lead straight into the mixing desk from the line out.

Some of the bass parts ( teenage kicks & all i need) was done with a bass amp and cheap zoom distortian pedal through the line out. The rest was done either through midi or i played it on my keyboard live ( Riding out til the end).

All the keyboard sounds were played on a yammah bog standard keyboard, some of which was run through my guitar amp to use the in build effects (reverb mainly ).

Drums were midi, and where pre loaded onto my Yamaha digital drum kit, before hiting playback ;)

I had only one microphone for the album, which was a behringer c1. Which i used for all vocals and the guitar solo in All i need is you. Using my brother for the vocals i built a small matress booth in my house to contain him in. I had no pop filter, and he held the microphone sat down :L

Software

For recording most the songs, i used abelton live lite. Sadly i could only have 4 tracks at a time. So after laying down the drums and rhtyum guitar i bounced out the individual tracks, before recording the next layers. what had been done already was merged into a guide track. Its worth mentioning that alot  of the reverb and delay and was done as the signal was being recorded meaning it could not be removed :(

 
Kristal DAW (windows only )

The songs where mixed and edited in audacity and some of the material was mixed in the krystal open source daw. I new very little about eq or compression. Instead i just boosted levels and panned the instrument to gain a "mix" . I splashed everything with reverb and lots of it :L. The best song in terms of audio quailty would be riding out to the end. I did some clever guitar work in the intro (listen hard)


I would like to return to the songs one day and finish that album with a host of different singers :L, but for now here are the recordings minus 2 which i may upload and include at a later date!