You can really hear the "realverb" on the guitars in this part. Really pushed the big room sound to make it sound spacious!

Reese used a floor tom covered with a bed sheet and soft mallets to add some cool low end percussion. Kinda reminds me of a marching bass drum.

I really like the distant shaker for this part. I had Reese stand in the far corner of my life room, about 15 feet from the overhead room mics.

Some cool volume swell effects here by Ryden. We contemplated just using volume envelopes but the effect of manipulating the volume knob just sounds way cooler.

Epic vibraphone solo!  Crazy fact: The weekend after this recording, Reese's collegiate percussion group played backup for bass virtuoso, Victor Wooten.

I think we did about 7 or 8 takes of this solo on vibes... all of them very different. Same thing with the guitar solo coming up.

As with the vocals, natural reverb really makes pushing a solo upfront more cohesive with the rest of the mix, whereas artificial reverb plugins and rack effects can make it sound like it's not part of the band.

Little bit of triangle on the right. Why not? :)

Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier half-stack for the distorted leads. Betcha wouldn't have guessed that one ;D

Slight clicks coming through the tele's pickups actually sound neat here. Normally I would either re-take the part or edit it out, but I like the very subtle clock effect it produced.

LIFE SIZE GHOST - Standing Out  (from their EP "The Realverb Sessions")

All live instruments, no pitch corrected or auto-tuned vocals, no artificial reverb effects - just natural acoustics.

Life Size Ghost - Standing Out

Still Remains drum test version 2.  A little more EQ and multiband compression.  Gave it a little more room ambiance as well.   

Still Remains - drum test 02

American Venom - Blacked Out

Before Today Collapses - Drop E Instrumental

This is a sampler of some drum recording I did in early 2011.  We triggered the kick with a Steven Slate sample and layered in main beats with Noah's (The Browning's drummer) acrylic Tama snare.  Everything else was played live by the drummer.

This is a great example of the kind of sound you can get when blending triggered drums with live drums - mechanical precision with a human touch.

The Browning - Drum sampler

04-04-12 GOLD COBRA

Zao's "Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest" was a hugely influential album on me.  Way ahead of it's time in '98.  This is my cover/tone match to the opening track.  

Zao - Lies of Serpents

Sound check of drums with no snare wires on.

4-11-2012 - sound check

All 100% live drums, no samples or blends.

1 Octave below Drop D#

Karnivool's Sound Awake is one of my favorite engineered/produced records.  Here is my attempt at some of those tones.

100% live drums - zero samples, layering, quantizing, or triggering.  Amp sims for guitars.

Karnivool cover (Goliath Intro)

Burn With Me - The Shackles (MIXED AND MASTERED ONLY)

Professional recording studio in Bay City, Michigan.

Life Size Ghost - Standing Out

RandomAwesome

Recent comments

RandomAwesome

RandomAwesome

RandomAwesome

RandomAwesome

Related tracks