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String Cheese are no strangers to technology.
Michael Kang plays effected electric mandolin, you
use lots of modern keyboard tech, and I personally
love that Jason Hann plays a Korg Wavedrum.
We're open to letting each member blossom with all the
technology they want, whether it's as simple as Billy deciding
to play more electric guitar and not acoustic, or musically sequencing a dubstep version of a Led Zeppelin song, or Bollywood songs-it's all OK!
Are you guys gearheads when it comes to the
studio?
We use a lot of Universal Audio gear, Empirical Labs Distressors, we record in Pro Tools, typical studio stuff.
When you set up the studio, did you stick with
the mics and things you were already using for
recording and releasing your live shows?
It was a combination of that, plus Billy has some good mics, I
have some good mics, Dros has stuff-we just pieced it together.
Are you set up to rehearse or jam at all times and
record it all?
That was the vision, to be able to rehearse and quickly hit
record. It's never quite worked out that way.
Interesting, why not?
Right now, it's about sonic isolation, like wailing guitars and
bleed from everything. I know that's how someone like Daniel
Lanois does it; ideally, we want to work towards that.
When it's time to track, do you all play together,
or do the more modern layering method?
A combination of both. We play the song a few times, and
then we'll choose the drum take. Then we'll splice it all together
and build off that. We go back and fix the bass, or the keys,
and then we add vocals.
But you're still building off of the initial interaction
of a full take?
Yes, of course. We pick the take or the parts that are the most
lively, and then fix the mess-ups.
Looking at the current crop of singles, tell me about
a song like 'All We Got'. It's like modern dance
meets vintage disco and late 70's jazz fusion.
Right, sort of a Fela/Talking Heads kind of thing, yeah.
It's really keyboard heavy. Did you program a lot
of that?
It's mostly played. Many of the recent recordings are based
on jams. That one specifically, I played the melody in Vegas
three or four years ago. I went back to the archives, listened to
that jam, and brought it back to the band. We made that part
the hook, and then Michael said, why don't we put this other
part here? Taking some of the gems from live performances has
been a good way for us to manifest new material. 'Big Reveal'
is based on a groove we did at Merryweather.
So how do you track your keys? I assume the
organ is a real Leslie?
Yes, it's two Shure SM57 mics on the top and a Shure SM7B
on the bottom.
Photo by: Dylan Langille
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Fade In
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That One Instrument Mic
Plugin Outlet: Chandler Limited Germanium Compressor by Softube
Incidents in The Sound Lab: Recording and Mixing The String Cheese Incident
Peluso P-28 Pencil Tube Condenser Microphone
Austrian Audio Hi-X55 Professional Over-Ear Headphones
Creative Miking Techniques for Flute, Snare, Piano, and more!
The Do’s and Don’ts of Flute Recording
Stereo Snare and Fun Room Miking Tips
Recording Piano Wrong
Plugin Outlet: Silo Soundlabs Trident EQ plugins
Inside the Studio with Mark Hornsby: miking and making Nick D’Virgilio’s
Samar Audio Design AL95 Passive Ribbon Microphone
Heiserman H47tube Microphone
Inside the Box with Joe Albano: Microphone and Preamp Modeling
Readers' Tracks
Plugin Outlet: Polyverse Comet
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