Almanac
Answer to Yourself
Gimme Shelter Recording Project - Vocal Recording
With the instrumentation done at this point there was only the vocals to record in. For this I decided to again use the Tascam desk as there would only be one input channel for the recording and the Tascams functionality would be better suited personally for the session.
Gimme Shelter Recording Project - Rhythm & Guitar Recording
I organised the first recording session, aiming to track the guitars through. For this session I booked an afternoon slot of the Tascam mixing console / studio. For the rhythm guitar Luke brought his Telecaster, fitting with the equipment used on the original record, and with this being the driving riff track in the piece we sent the signal through to the live-room via the tieline in at the patch bay, out to a Vox amp which was set to add some distortion and drive to the guitar.
Gimme Shelter - Mixing
When approaching the mixing stage of my production of Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones I wanted to capture the same energetic and big sound of the original within my own. During the recording stages I had familiarized myself with the deconstructed audio tracks of the original so that whilst we tracked instrumentation such as the guitars, I could refer back to the original tone to compare against what I was getting from the instrumentation in our own version.
Gimme Shelter Recording Project - Pre-Production / Session Planning
For the recording module I have been working on a recording of Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones (1969), during this I have had to plan for several recording sessions within which I will record the various audio tracks I need for the final track. For this I researched the original's audio tracks, listening through and critically listening to the deconstructed tracks referenced below.
Applied Aesthetics In A Mixing Context
Over this last month I have worked on a 3-track project with an artist which has been aesthetically focussed to fit an outsider, somewhat low-fidelity and down beat sound. Using inspirations of the audio qualities of released records by artists such as Daniel Johnston and Jeffery Lewis, we aimed for a dark and moody style with the tracks to bring together the melancholic lyrics / vocals with the disenent guitar falling in and out of melody, calamity / rhythm in a overall disassociating atmosphere, which I emphasised in the mixing stage to enhance the audio quality from its original recording files.
One Mic Recording Session
During a recent studio session I captured a take of Your Dead by Norma Tanega, performed by myself and friends utilising what instruments we had together : acoustic guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and vocals. As we had recently in class took part in a podcast recording workshop, I decided to take the limitation of only one mic for multiple sound sources, which we faced with the podcast, and apply the same limitation to where I would usually utilise multiple input recording, in an ensemble recording context.
A Telharmonium Recreation
During a lecture on the history of electronic audio equipment and instruments we learnt about the Telharmonium instrument and how it was used to transmit music through phone lines around the year of its production in 1896. When we were told by our lecturer that it’s sound was one that had been lost to history I thought it would make an interesting project to try and attempt a recreation of the lost sound and integrate it on another project of mine.