Saturday, 15 December 2007

Second Start

Last night we reocorded 3 new songs; Tempting Fate, Bring It On and new one Crazy


Did things differently this time. Firstly and most importantly, we have switched to Logic from ProTools. This means I now carry a MacBook Pro with logic Studio 8 on it, and a little rack with the 2 Presonus Digimax mic pre's and my RME Fireface 400. Much better. I have been a dedicated Protools user for about 5 year, but Logic 8 is simply better in all regards, I'm afraid. it certainly sounds better.

I also changed the mics based on the test session we did last week. The overheads are now a coincident pair, the toms are all mic'd with the C418s and the snare now has a 57 on it. I am experimenting with using an Audio Technica boundary mic inside the kick and the C1000 condenser on the front skin


The Protools rig is going on eBay and the money can buy a new audio interface so I don't have to cart mine around. The Fireface is great as it has a zero latency mixer built in for doing the headphone feeds, but I think it'll be a Presonus Firestudio so it'll all match and it has more headphone amps and a talkback mic. Still has the zero latency mixer though.