Spent the afternoon and early evening tracking bass and keys (and some loops) with Adam and Dave of The War On Drugs. I’ve been asked to hang out and help out with some overdubs over at Adam’s place here in Philly, and since I am such a huge fan of this band this whole adventure is a real treat.
We worked on a few songs (which are in various states of amazing). Tracked Dave’s bass both direct (DI through my Sytek) and through a Fender Bassman 4×10. The Bassman was miked with my Shure SM7b through my 1970’s Yamaha PM-1000 preamp. Adam laid down some passes of his new ARP Omni 2 (which I almost bought last week but finally abstained from gear lust). We went DI through the Sytek. Everything was recorded to Tascam MS-16 1″ analog tape…the good stuff. Oh the smell of oxide! Preamps XLR’d right into the back of it.
Between songs we transferred tape into Digital Performer through the Black Lion Audio MOTU 828mk2 (it has the old analog and clock modification from 2006…more on this to come in a later post). I exported everything as WAV files so Adam can drag and drop into PTLE to continue the madness.
Looking forward to getting together next week for more tracking, reamping, and burritos!