Second Set of Ears

For my Dad’s birthday I recorded him a song.  I’m posting it on here to give a slightly more complex breakdown of a song being recorded.  For vocals and Saxophone I used an AKG Perception 220 (the same one featured in the radio drama).  For acoustic guitar and bass guitar I used a countryman DI (the same one used in the last Anatomy of a song recording.)  For electric guitar I put a Shure SM-57 in front of my guitar rig.  The volume on the guitar rig was set very low.  The AKG and countrymen-recorded sources have a medium room reverb plugin preset on them, and each source has an EQ plugin with a corresponding preset (i.e. vocals would have a vocal eq preset)  Here’s how it sounds.

 

 Standard Podcast [3:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s a song I wrote about 3 years ago the I did a quick recording of recently.  The recording is very basic, as I recorded the guitar by plugging my Manuel Rodriguez e Hijos Mod. Cutaway B classical guitar into a countryman DI and running that into a Digi 003 rack+ interface for protools.  What’s more is the vocals were done with a Shure SM-57 with a toboggan hat used as a windscreen/pop filter.  Somewhat primitive on the vocal methods, I know.  Nonethleess, here’s how the combination sounds with the help of some plugins.

 

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I’ve done a radio mystery play that uses an AKG Perception 220 condenser microphone on several different voices and sources.  All of the audio is recorded with this mic except for the music which was done with a midi keyboard in Xpand!

 

 AKG on a murder mystery [4:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here is the first gear demo for the site, featuring the Dual Rectifier 3-channel solo amplifier head from MESA Boogie.  This is my (Ian) first gear demo that I’ve ever done.  It serves two purposes: 1) to get a demo out there for this amp, and 2) to serve as somewhat of an example for how gear demos should be done on the site.  Without further ado, here’s the demo. (there are 3 videos)

First off, I start with a tour and overview of the amp’s features:

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I took a few minutes to introduce myself and my background to not only allow you to get to know me better, but so you knew why I decided to do this site in the first place.

I’ve created a video introduction of the site.  It’s fairly brief, but I wanted to be sure to explain not only the function but the concept.