The Radírfejek band visited us. They recorded seven songs in such a way that, besides the vocals and one or two additional instruments (kaval, cowbell), they played the songs together in one take.
GPT I’ll describe the recording process in a bit more detail.
The band and, unfortunately, I too arrived at the studio before 10 a.m. The “unfortunately” on my part because I had planned to arrive an hour earlier and, by the time the band arrived, set up the drum microphones on their stands, and also place the bass and guitar amps, already mic’d, in the middle playback room. The heads, meanwhile, would be set up in the technical room. Since this didn’t happen, while Tomi Varga was busy setting up the drum kit, I went ahead and implemented the plan. 🙂
We brought in the EBS Classic Line bass cabinet and the Marshall 1960 AX cabinet side by side into the middle playback room. I placed a board containing step-resistant rock wool between them to reduce the interplay between the two amplifiers to a low level. I mic’d up both amps.
Then, I adjusted the microphones to the set-up drum kit, and Tomi could start warming up.
I placed the Ampeg VST III Pro bass head and the Marshall JTM-45 guitar head in the technical room, as we had collectively decided. I could have placed them in the main playback room so that the musicians would be in the same airspace, but since they could communicate well with Tomi through the glass, we stuck with the initial decision.
Zoli Malik, the bassist-vocalist, was given a pair of headphones so he could properly hear the bass.
Tomi Terényi, the guitarist, did not receive one, as he could clearly hear his guitar play through the monitor speakers.
The band played a song, and during that, we adjusted the right balances and sounds in Zoli and Tomi’s ears.
Betti also helped the musicians maintain the correct song structure by singing into a microphone in the technical room.
By 11:30, everything was set up (recording levels, sounds), and we were ready to start the actual recording!
The drum, bass, guitar tracks of the seven songs approximately… were comfortably recorded by 3:30 p.m. In the meantime, of course, there were breaks, discussions, and for the last song, Tomi went up to the cabinet to make feedback during some of the distorted parts.
For each song, we made two or three recordings, and sometimes we were able to make edits at certain mistakes, fixing some recorded parts. This is why breaks in the songs are useful! 🙂
GPT Zoli sang and played his kaval parts in about half an hour.
Betti started singing at 4 p.m. and finished in an hour, also playing the kaval in a few songs. We recorded her voice onto two tracks. Az egyik ami a CM-47 mikrofonból jött közvetlenül, a másik sáv átment az UREI 1176-on, közepesen kompresszálva. This track was sent back to her in her headphones. We added a bit of delay and reverb to the monitor path so that she could practically hear a finished vocal sound from herself. Indeed, she needed to make few corrections because she was well-prepared for the recordings.
Tomi recorded a bit of cowbell, and Terényi Tomi added some vocal effects.
By 5:30 p.m., all recordings were completed!
It was an efficient day! The mixing of the songs can begin!
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