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The PA setup at SOTA Studios, August 2016
This was very much a ‘first experiment’ into the studio drum machines concept. Some of it
worked, some of it didn’t. Upon listing to the recordings back in the SC studios, what
became clear is that the PA mics themselves were also very interesting indeed, something
that hadn’t been part of the original idea. Unfortunately, because the PA had been setup
in an unusual way, the phase relationships between the PA mics were all over the place,
so could not be used.
A second session was booked in August
2016, at State of The Ark studios in London. A
smaller room this time, but with a killer
selection of vintage analogue gear - the pride
of place being an EMI TG desk, previously
used by The Rolling Stones, amongst others.
This time the PA was set up in a conventional
stack formation, and the mics lined up with
precision. In the studios drum booth we set
up an acoustic drum kit, and a small sub-woofer to send a sub only feed from the drum
machines - in this way we planned to capture the sound of the drum kit shaking, then filter
out the sub-bass later. A channel was also routed through the legendary compressor on
the EMI desk, and driven hard.
This session was very successful, with some great sounds captured over 2 days recording.
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