Anna

For the track ‘Anna’, my inspiration was ‘Little Black Submarines’ by The Black Keys so I recorded the acoustic start by using the NT1A as a room microphone placed closer to the vocalist and then used an SM57 as a spot microphone for the acoustic guitar; I wanted to get quite a lo-fi feel for the track so I used minimal of processing and instead used microphone placement to get the right amount of reverb and EQ from the room. For the vocals in the latter half of the track I placed the NT1A about six inches away from the vocalist to let the room colour the sound and then compressed it lightly and used the Aphex Exciter to make the vocals stand out in the track. I used the Kramer Tape to saturate the vocals a bit and to also give them some tape delay. The drums were compressed with a shorter release than the previous track to make them sound tighter, used the Kramer Tape to give them a saturated sound and put them through a bus with a long reverb to make them really big. I used two different guitars for the guitar parts again to get two different sounds which made the mixing stage easier as I didn’t have to use any form of processing, other than a little bit of EQ to cut out some highs so they didn’t clash. I used the NT1A on one guitar part to bring out some of the lower frequencies and an SM57 on the lead guitar. I recorded the bass with an NT1A again but brought it a little further away from the amp to let the room leak into the recording. I used two iPhones to record some background noise to go with the track.