In preparation for our next EP recording, we recorded some songs to help us to map things out ready to make another slice of awesome.  This is just the 4 of us in our practice space playing through the songs, no overdubs, just 1 guitar, 1 bass, 1 kit and Dan singing.  
The drums were recorded with 4 mics, 1 on the bass drum, 1 on the snare and 2 overheads. Bass was recorded by DI. Guitar was one mic and the vocals were a standard vocal mic that is used for practices.  These tracks have undergone some polishing via plugins in Logic, the guitar track has been copied to fatten things up and these are panned hard left and right.  None of the performances have been altered, it's just us warts and all first take, practice style.  It sounds pretty good, hope you enjoy it!!

Drag (Practice Recording 14/07/2013)

In preparation for our next EP recording, we recorded some songs to help us to map things out ready to make another slice of awesome. This is just the 4 of us in our practice space playing through the songs, no overdubs, just 1 guitar, 1 bass, 1 kit and Dan singing.
The drums were recorded with 4 mics, 1 on the bass drum, 1 on the snare and 2 overheads. Bass was recorded by DI. Guitar was one mic and the vocals were a standard vocal mic that is used for practices. These tracks have undergone some polishing via plugins in Logic, the guitar track has been copied to fatten things up and these are panned hard left and right. None of the performances have been altered, it's just us warts and all first take, practice style. It sounds pretty good, hope you enjoy it!!

Salt Flower (Practice Recording 14/07/2013)

A jam from a practice session in March 2015

Jam 23032015

A really short jam from the first session for recording the drums for Clown's EP2. 

Jam From Session 1

Another mix of Enormous Baby, redid the vocals at the beginning and messed with some other stuff.  Mastered a bit better, maybe?

Enormous Baby Better Mix

Another version of this song, there were a couple of bits we played wrong so we changed them.  Tried some different mastering techniques.

Enormous Baby Version 4

A slightly more mixed version of MLE, with a couple of extra bass bits on and a different mastering treatment.

Massive Lobster Erection (MLE)

A couple of bits changed for the better and a slightly better mastering treatment.

Thermo Speedcount Nobbynuts Ver 2

This is kind of what we do when we're trying to sort out vocals, Al just stands and freestyles stuff at mic in a room to see if anything comes to mind, we then pick through to see if there's anything worth using.  Not sure how much of this will get in to the final song. You can hear that he's not in the mood at the start though some good stuff about the Channel 4 documentary about the man with the 10 stone testicles appears in the middle, maybe some melodies will stay. But a little insight into what we do.

Midget Vocal Improv 050713

Some more vocal ideas for this song, some kept from the improv one, but the sillier bits have been (mostly) edited out.  We will now try to write some better words that fit. Still pretty funny in places!

Neil Laird