Someone asked how this song was made, thought I'd mirror it here.
The piece was really based around my pitch modded ER-1 acting as a drum machine/gate/bit crusher for :
Korg Polysix into the ER-1 then close mic'd with a Shure SM-58 micing a TINY Silvertone bass amp
Fenderish guitar going through an ElectroHarmonix Germanium OD (same micing situation)
Weird short scale bass direct in to ER-1 (same mic situation)
We had a moving blanket thrown over the amp after putting the mic really close at a decent angle. My dog then lay on top of the blanket.
For vocals I had a matched pair of overhead (drum) mics pointing roughly at us. We did some whistling tracks, some clapping tracks and then I dropped vocals I had recorded when we were talking after recording. I'm the louder person.
Everything went into my Alesis IO-26 FW interface then into my Macbook Pro and then Logic. Logic recorded the midi data and then we overdubbed from the various instruments into the ER-1 which was midi clocked to Logic. Doing it that way meant that the gate would open and close at the same time and I could make the drums sound thick because they were different pitches at different points during the overdub.
For mixing, I only added delay to the vocals and cleaned up the EQ on the various tracks. I then used a bit of compression and some automation for volume levels and a bit of pan control. I stayed away from using any reverb or delay in Logic for the main mixdown. I wanted this to sound rough and liveish.
Track count:
ER-1 + Bass
ER-1 + Guitar
ER-1 + Polysix
2-3x ER-1 solo
4x vocals.
Tenebrous. Nice word!
BTW, we're trying to do more for the RPM challenge.
