Music:
Member Since: 1/17/2007
Band Members: Please Quiet Ourselves, 'Yvonne, Saplings, Buildings Breeding, Underground Underwater, G2, Inna K, A litte rage, Chief Briggum
I would love to record: Chief Briggum, Griznar Music Collective, Agent Ribbons, Cryptacize, Alas Alak Alaska, The Ancient Sons, Okay, San Francisco Water Cooler, Art Lessing and the Flower Vato, Who's Your Favorite Sun God
Influences: Elephant 6 Collective, Tape Op, DIY, lofi and hifi. In general amazing home recordings everywhere...
PHIL ELVRUM of the Microphones:
"As for the room he used to record in (I’m pretty sure he's not recording there anymore for the Mt Eerie stuff, at least that’s what I heard), he records at Dub Narcotic, a massive room that allows him to do tons of crazy reverb things. I get the impression it’s just a big warehouse type room. It's true that he often lets things blend naturally, and doesn’t worry about mic isolation at all.
The microphone he uses most is a Neumann U67 (not all of his stuff is old junky stuff apparently). He used this mic on almost everything for The Glow pt 2 the album, and probably others. Other mics he uses include a Neumann K86, 2 Small diaphragm Sennheisers as overheads, and AKG 414's.
He uses an old Altec Preamp, he didn’t say what model, but said it only had one knob. He doesn’t use any signal processors, or reverb effects. Just microphone to preamp to tape. I don’t think he even uses a mixer.
In emails to me he admitted that he doesn’t really know how to use compressors, and he rarely does, except for on drums. When his drums sound all weird... like on Samurai Sword, it's because he's using a compressor (UREI's) and turning them way too high, so the drums are super compressed.
He has always recorded onto reel to reel tape machines. Dub narcotic as an MCI 2 inch 16 track from the 70's and an Otari 1/2 inch 8 track. I think he used both for microphones material. Now he uses a Tascam 1/2inch 8 track.
He uses tape decks for distortion a lot. If anything is distorted on his recordings, it’s probably because he ran it through a tape deck. Any time his guitars are distorted, it’s because he ran his guitar through a tape deck. He also often records two of the same thing and hard pans them to make it sound wider. He did this on the intro of the glow pt 2, which consists of 3 tracks of drums (bass drum and two overheads) and two hard panned distorted guitars. Then for the most of the song it's the two hard panned acoustic guitars. Samurai Sword is similar, which has the same three tracks of drums, but 4 hard panned pairs of guitars (8 guitars total...).â€
-Posted by Magnetic Ghost on Trivial Being Forums (with spelling corrections)
Type of Label: Indie
