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Bel Air Holiday by millionVALVE at Baltimore, MD

Brother Winston by millionVALVE at Baltimore, MD

Busy MiLK by millionVALVE at Baltimore, MD

Stepper by millionVALVE at Baltimore, MD

Hi everyone!

This is a song I recorded in Auria in the late summer of 2014. It's 100% recorded and mastered in Auria on an iPad Air 2. (No vox, yet.)

While no recording or mix is perfect, this is pretty exactly damn close to what I was trying to achieve: a big, full wall of sound--while keeping good individual track clarity.

I went DI through my rig for most of the dozen or so guitar tracks. For a couple others (and 3 of the 6 solo tracks) I live mic'ed through the vintage Gibson practice amp.

The drums were a crappy old Alesis SR-16 that I didn't feel like re-programming. A lot of compression and limiting (plus some Drumagog-ing) made the drums sound fantastic. The claps are me--4 tracks. I found they lacked snap alone, and that smacking my leg with a ruler added the needed "thwack"!

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Instruments & Equipment:

Gretsch G5120 semi-hollow body
Ibanez EX-360
Extremely cheap and awesome P-bass clone (!)

Neotek dual-racked channel strips (preamp & EQ)
RNC Really Nice Compressor
Focusrite iTrack Dock
Blue Baby Bottle mic

Early 90'S Alesis SR-16 drum machine (heavily, heavily processed!)

1961 Gibson GS-5 Skylark amp (4W)

Monitoring & Mixing:

Sony MDR-7505 headphones
AKG K240S headphones
Yamaha NS-10M speakers
Yamaha NS-1000M speakers (circa 1978, 70lbs each--flat down to 20Hz)

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Sometime soon I hope to post an in-depth "In the Mix" breakdown of how I recorded it. 

I hope y'all enjoy this, and I'd love to hear your comments!

--Nick/millionVALVE