Here are a couple of hi res (6 meg download) samples of two songs on Dave Gilligan's new record "Things we don't do in Bars", for release in 12/04.
Here's a simple tune (Ted playing guitars, Dave Singing) about the inner city shack where Dave lived for 20 years.
Guitars are both (second guitar comes in later) Martin 0001c mic'd with Studio projects C4 in Omni, above the shoulder pointing down. Mic Pre was the pendulum, tube cranked, and slight compression (-3 db at the most) from the Pendulum's Fairchild-like tube compressor in "vintage" mode.
Way in the background is Dave playing my Weber direct to the board via the Pendulum's DI.
The Vocal is Dave singing into a Cascade VX20, through the pendulum, very slight compression in Vintage Mode, slight bass boost at 100 hz, a db or so at 2k, slight cut at 15k (nothin' there but hiss) , tube input quite hot, preamp low cut at 75 hz, and the Mic's low cut not engaged. He is standing in the center of the room, and two bass traps are set up on both sides of the mic to lower room reflections.
In the mix there is no eq, and no compression. There is very slight (no attenuation was visible) mastering compression from the Waves L1 Ultramaximizer+..
How Beautiful Our Children Would be
In this instrumental, written to an Irish cadence and construction, I mic a 1790 violin with a coincident pair of Neumann km84's from about two feet over the bridge, one mic pointed at the bridge, and the other at the neck. The Player moved around a bit so basically, I was just covering the general area.
The Guitar is Dave's Martin d28 (60's) Miced with the Neumann's also - quite a nice sounding guitar. The Harmonica was miced with an akg c3000 - to mellow out some of the screech in the high notes - but it came out nice - you can hear each reed.
The Dog House bass was miced about two feet from the bridge with a coincident pair of Studio Projects C4's, and I layed Bass traps all around the instrument on the floor to stop floor reflections. All the coincedent pairs used my RME quadmic preamps, which are fast and articulate. For the harp, I used the Pendulum, with the tube hot, and a little high end rolloff, and a little boost around 700 hz to give the thin sounding reeds a little body.
So, that's it.