Can's Stop Beach Punx!

Today I had the pleasure of recording The Cabbageheads, hailing all the way from Detroit. Noisey thrashy punky jamz were had, and we tracked the whole record in about 7 hours. BALLER. Great band, excellent people. I hope I get to hang out with them again soon.

Here's Dave recording some backup vocals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfXtfQ6TZoo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Gratuitous violinist

This past Tuesday, Faramarz Aslani came to AEhq for a violin overdub session with your friend and mine, Greitje Smid (renowned violinist for Pansori, Boatwater, and like 500 other projects). I took pictures, but they've mysteriously vanished. Weak. Trust me, it looked great.

I've usually tracked Greitje standing up, with an LDC/ribbon combo in a mid-side configuration. This time she decided to sit down, so I put a large ribbon mic in front of the violin and the large condenser a few inches abover her shoulder. It sounds fantasti, and surprisingly, so phase correction was needed. First try kids, one shot one kill! BOOM. I'm a little proud and cocky about it.

My lovely girlfriend gave me a found "partscaster" that they think her brother assembled, a fine blonde Telecaster body shape with a Duncan Detontor humbucker in the neck and a who-knows-what single coil bridge pickup. After a string change and neck/intonation adjustment, I can safely say that this is my new all-the-time guitar. My SG, The Crimson Queen, is sure to be jealous, but the new girl just sounds so RIGHT. As soon as I replace this pickguard, I'll share piccies.

Mixing is seemingly on hold for Blood Horses while they sort some grad school life stuff out. Burning Axe owes me some notes before we continue. This Saturday I'll be recording Detroit's Cabbage Heads at Barclay House with Lotus Fucker's  Dan MCgregor acting as producer and spiritual guide. Should be sweet times.

So bad at blogging.

In the time since I last posted, I have:

-finished mixing and mastering the debut album by Sweat Life
-recorded some demos with Matt Beale
-mastered a State Violence 7"

And today, I began tracking an ep with Baltimore's own Burning Axe for their upcoming tour. So far, it sounds as heavy as a very heavy thing.

Coming this week:
-finishing Burning Axe
-a guitar and violin Persian folk session on Tuesday
-recording an LP for Detroit's own Cabbage Heads at Barclay House, with producer duties being handled by Lotus Fucker's main man Dan McGregor

In February:
-a Queen Wolf ep
-a Matt Beale & The Shakes album
-some White Bear songs
-a Snake Fist Demo
-foley for "Call Girl Of Cthulhu", the soon-to-be-in-production Midnight Crew studios film.

There are even more possible awesome things lining up for the spring. Hot times y'all! Speaking of Midnight Crew, their magnificent film "Witch's Brew" is out January 22nd! I helped mix the film, and also recorded the drums for the soundtrack and the commentary. Yay me! Yay Midnight Crew! Buy this movie, because it's great!