posted by cs004 on Nov 10
On Sunday, November 9, 2008, I attended Scott Hoon and Bryant Wong’s overdubbing and mixing session in Studio A at LVC. They already tracked the drums, bass, and guitar of the songs they needed, and simply needed to overdub keys and each song and vocals on one. When we first set up and started the overdubbing, Scott needed more signal from Trent’s keyboard so he asked for more and Trent relunctantly gave. Scott reaffirmed Trent that he’d turn it down afterwards if needed. Anyways, we started the redubbing and Trent busted his part out with ease. We had to punch part of the beginning, but Trent cleaned it up right away. While Trent was playing the second song, Scott started playing around with the Bombfactory compressor which is a “bomb”ass compressor (pardon my language). He didn’t like the sound of the kick drum so he was trying to improve it with the compressor. So Trent once again amazed us all with a crazy spotless first take, with exception of maybe a few notes. Once again, we quickly went back and punched that part. Once the organ part was laid out, we went back and Trent added a piano part. It was now time for the third song, which was a sweet 12 bar blues. Trent busted his organ part out nearly perfectly, and we had to go back to punch literally one note out. Furthermore, that one note was at the end of an insane run. Again, that was quickly fixed and we moved on. Now Scott set up a mic (I forget the name) that was incredibly awesome. It sounded spotless and even had its own power supply. We plugged the mic through the patchbay from the studio to the control room and plugged it into the sweet sweet 147 Universal Audio 2-610 Tube Pre-amp. Mark laid down some smooth vocals on the third song. We had to redo the 1st and 2nd verse because it was too hot, and we were practically done. Once that was done, we went back to Trent, who laid down piano fills between the vocals. Everything sounded great, and Mark and Trent packed up and left. We cleaned the little mess that was in the studio and headed back to the control room where we started mixdown. Scott had all three guitar tracks (note: the guitar part was recorded to three separate mics) grouped together so that we could experiment with the part with ease. He ended up bring out the melody in certain parts and automated a pan for the melody in another part. He showed me an easy way to do all this with simply grabbing the track line and raising up, making a rectangular bubble on the track line. Anyways, 2 and a half hours went by and it was time to study for good ol’ Dr. Day’s physics exam.
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