EQ Magazine - September 2007 - (Page 13)

on Getting It Down Fast and Furious Punch In CHIEFS Pictured left to right: Simon Rix, Nick Hodgson, Andrew “Whitey” White, Ricky Wilson, Nick “Peanut” Baines. quick, minimalist approach used for “Thank You Very Much. ” “As is often the case with good guitar sounds, this song was done with a ’74 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe plugged into an old Vox AC30 that was cranked up as loud as it would go, says White. ” “No pedals. No effects. It’s just the natural gain of the amp. In the bridge section of the song, when a ‘guitar duel’ starts, all we did to make a distinction between the sounds of the two guitar parts was to use the Les Paul Deluxe and a three-pickup Les Paul Custom — both plugged into the same AC30. We did pan them opposite each other in the mix, but, otherwise, the whole procedure was quite simple. ” The quick-and-simple method was taken to surprising levels — at least for a popular international band — when the Kaiser Chiefs released a self-recorded single of “Oh My God” in 2004. Basically, this was an early version of what appeared fully produced on Employment, and the recording process was not pretty. “We borrowed a bunch of Shure SM57s and SM58s from a venue we used to play in, and we used those mics to record everything except the vocals — even the drums, remembers ” Baines. “We used an AKG C1000 condenser running into a Focusrite TrakMaster Pro preamp for the vocal tracks, and we recorded everything into Roland VS-880 digital workstation. That’s all we needed! To mix the song, we transferred the VS tracks into Apple Logic Pro using a SCSI connection. But even though we were mixing with professional software, we still did things like playing the guitar tracks through the monitors, miking the speakers with SM57s, and running the signal through a Boss DD-3 Digital Delay and into the VS-880, before transferring everything back into Logic. The DD-3 delays were simply more appropriate for our guitar sounds than what we could get with plug-ins. We wanted something more analog — more raw. More often than not, you don’t have to be fancy to get the sounds you need. ” www.eqmag.com SEPTEMBER 2007 EQ 13 http://www.eqmag.com

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Contents Talk Box Sounding Board Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly Ben and Vesper Kaiser Chiefs Toolbox Ozma Porcupine Tree Rush The Software Power User Guide Guitar Trax Bass Management Key Issues Drumheads Vocal Cords Mix Bus Cheat Sheet Chameleon Labs TS1 and TS2 Primera Bravo Se Disc Publisher Roland MC-808 Magix Samplitude Professional 9.1 Massey Tape-Head Big Fish Audio Revolucion Reggaeton Sonivox World Beats Sony Pocket Diva Adobe Audition 2.0 Cakewalk Sonar 6 Room with a VU: J Street Recorders, Sacramento, CA

EQ Magazine - September 2007

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