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Edited Feb 08, 2010, 16:01
Re: CD manufacture
Feb 08, 2010, 15:55
We've got two of these: http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1917





From our blog:
How We Do It
Our tracks, as you've probably noticed, are a bit lofi. This is because they're just recorded in a single consecutive live take. We are intending, one day to do a proper studio recording. But, for now, all of the music that we keep replacing every week has been done as we jam and improvise. Live.

If you're interested in how we've arrived at our ad hoc methods; we have two Samson USB mics that plug directly into an old Apple G4 iBook, running the freeware application Audacity. Each mic has a separate input for a direct feed. Effectively that gives us an ambient room recording of everything and a clean D.I. signal that we take from a line-out socket on the back of an amplifier.

The two mics give us a total of four tracks to mix from: Mic A - picks up mainly one side of our little room, with a bias on guitarist Stuart's speaker cab and perhaps more of the right side of Nick's drum kit. This mic then also takes a clean separate bass guitar track.

Mic B - Another room recording maybe with a slightly different side of the drum kit and perhaps a bit more spill from Beatnick's keyboard amp and a separate cleanish input track of Laura's vocal - D.I.ed from her little PA system. Her vocal mic inevitably picks up everything else to some extent, but at least it's mostly vocal on that track.

The four tracks are then mixed in Audacity the next morning by our fuzzy headed drummer, Nick. No overdubs, just a bit of EQing and clipping to remove the chat from the beginning and end of the song.
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