and of course all my usual pedals and tape echoes. and we had 8 natural chambers and 8 emt plates for all analog verb at henson studio's. nikka and husband/producer justin stanley have done a real fine job of crafting these songs.Īnd they were also adament about staying with old school production methods like tracking the band all live (including nikka's lead), tape editing (woohoo), you know real stuff like that. well i'm really pleased how this one came out.
NIKKA COSTA FIRST LOVE MIDI FULL
we went full analog, no plug ins, etc, etc and tracked and mixed at Henson studios (formerly) A&M studios. We finished up nikka costa's "pebble to a pearl" album back in april of last year. so if you haven't bought it already, then go out and pick it up after you finish reading this. I thought some of you folks might want to hear some good old analog recordings. How's everyone doin? i hope you're all really well.
I've talked about some of my techniques in the Q&A here. getting a blend between the raw sound and the compressed sounds. usually wnet for a big natural but compressed sound. depending on the song and it's dynamics and frequencies depends on how much of the overhead sound i use. In general, i always try and get a good balance between the close mics and the overheads/room mics. Overheads/room- u47, coles, stc, rca44, u67, c12Īs you can see, i had an abundance of really nice mics.
as you can tell he's still funky and still rockin!įor these drums i used a few different combinations: for those that don't know, he was the drummer for all the classic bill wither's records. I remember someone telling me that a lot mercuryĮquipment was used on one of the older albums.įirst i should say that the legendary James Gadson was the drummer for that record. were used on drums?ĭo you use overheads for the main drum sound in songs like
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