HM Magazine picks Project Damage Control

[brent]

The November/December issue of HM Magazine features Project Damage Control in it's Pick of the Litter. We are also in the Christmas Wish List. Check it out. I don't recall the E brothers band that they compared us to, but they like us.

Check out the latest review on Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Mechanism/dp/B003 ... -3-catcorr

[bakersfieldpethead]

I hear a lot of Guardian style in this album too, it sounds great. All except the Drum tracks, but as a drummer I can pick stuff like that out.

If you do another one, I would love to do some Drum tracks for ya. I have a studio here in Bakersfield, and I play a very good 1977 4 Piece Rogers Drum Kit, sounds very cool. Would love the chance to really Rock out again.

[Dan]

Awesome work man.

[brent]

I hear a lot of Guardian style in this album too, it sounds great. All except the Drum tracks, but as a drummer I can pick stuff like that out.

If you do another one, I would love to do some Drum tracks for ya. I have a studio here in Bakersfield, and I play a very good 1977 4 Piece Rogers Drum Kit, sounds very cool. Would love the chance to really Rock out again.

What's up with the drum tracks?

[bakersfieldpethead]

To me the Cymbals sound like they are from a drum machine.

[brent]

Nope. All real. No samples on PDC. I didn't say there wasn't some creative editing when changing arrangements mid-stream.

In fact, some of those tracks were mixed and recorded to an Alesis Masterlink when I ran out of hard drive space. I could not change the mix much, aside from some multiband compression (Waves C4) and some psycho acoustic widening (Waves as well).

Sometime I will post the drum track sheet, signed by Louie Weaver, which includes the mics and their positions.

It goes something like this:

Outside kick: Neumann U47
Inside Kick: Audix D6
Snare top/side by air hole: Audix i5
Snare bottom: Beyerdynamic M201
HiHat: Shure SM7B or Sennheiser 8040 IIRC
Tom1: Sennheiser MD421
Tom2: Sennheiser MD421
Tom3: Sennheiser MD421
Tom4: Shure Beta52
OH1: ADK TT (highly modified)
OH2: ADK TT (highly modified) These mics were in a ORTF over Louie's left shoulder
Room1: Neumann U87A
Room2: Neumann U87A These mics were in a spaced pair config throughout the whole process. All instruments recorded in the same room were mixed to these mics, as if all of the instruments were being recorded at the same time, to simulate occupying the same space, and to minimize phasing. I am a big believer in the old ways, with keeping the effects of the rooms acoustics on the sources and mics down to one. Something doesn't sound right if the sounds of multiple rooms are summed together. I like to use one verb patch for the whole mix if possible as well.

All of these went into 24 channels of Digidesign ProTools HD PREs. I kept those close to him with short cable runs. They are remote controllable by MIDI. They are as close to a Grace preamp as you can get without selling the wife and kids. Some of the tracks were submixed and sent to an A-Designs Pacifica preamp for color. Most processing was via Waves TDM Mercury plugs (vintage and linear EQs, comps, etc.). Other processing via Massey limiters and tape head sims.

Louie played a custom DW kit with pin-striped Remo heads. I wanted coated. He didn't. He conceded on the size of one of the toms. I also had a Roland V-Drum kit available...no takers. Rightfully so. He was still scared from the old days. The other drummer and percussionist used Tama IIRC. Evans heads for sure.

[bakersfieldpethead]

I'll go back and listen to them again. Could have been something from my end of things that made me think they sounded like that.

As far as the V-Drums go, I wouldn't sit on another one of those if my life depended on it....lol I had some bad experiences with electric drums as well.