Chris Merritt day numero uno

i'm tired. last night paul jacobsen and i stayed up muy late and FINISHED THE RECORDING of his epic second album. this is very big news, and luckily we went out with a bang and a great last track.

cut to this morning at 7am and me not really wanting to start the first day of a project on 3.5 hours of sleep.

but i finished the setup, and we got rolling right on time.

let's meet the band shall we?

first up, mr chris merritt - piano, vocal

senior dustin hofheins - bass

monsieur tim fellow - drums

today we got 3 songs down - bass, piano and drums live. this is a boring post. sorry, as i said i'm tired, and american idol is on the tivo, and sarah made me a milkshake that i want to drink, and i'm tired.

in nerd news today:

drums got the usual with the slight exception of my version of the glyn johns technique on the overheads, with the blue kiwi over the snare and the aea r84 looking over the floor tom at the snare.

bass got the avalon u5 for direct, and then the subkick combined with an audio technica atm25 on and amp - either an ampeg svt, an ampeg b-15n or the ampeg b-50r.

now, for piano. in an efforto to be prepared for whatever may come, the piano was well-mic'd. by well mic'd, i mean 7 MICS! thats 5 more than usual. overkill? yes. bases covered? check.


yeah, that's a lot of microphones.

57's over the hammers, km-184s under the lid, u-87s in x-y on the edge, and (not pictured) a 414 down at the end.

ok, that is all. here are more pictures.