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Status: Single
City: MINNEAPOLIS
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/5/2004
Thursday, April 09, 2009 

Current mood:  accomplished
Thurs April 2, 2009:

- Jason drives from Ottumwa, IA up to MPLS and arrives at 2AM


Fri April 3:

- Start w/coffee and muffins at Minnehaha Coffee @ 11

- Start @ 11 30

- Set up mics, screw around with preamp choices etc. Make a decision!: to high pass filter the room mics or not!!!????

- Spend an hour trying to figure out a way for the drum machine to behave like a metronome

- Go to Radio Shack and get an adapter for Jason's ear buds

- Eat a Fast Eddie's S + P Pizza, extra sauce

- Worked on first tune, working title Uzi Suicide

- Finish at midnight

- Watch the brunt of "Love, Sex & Death 101 on Showtime


Sat April 4:

- BC wakes up at 8:45 and goes to the Y

- Coffee and Donut at the Minnehaha. Get Soda + Tea for Jsunn.

- Redux drums for Uzi Suicide from the night before

- Move on to other songs...record drums for 5 songs

- Poor Jason being driven rode hard with B's perfectionism and tweakhead nature

- Ate a Papa John's Pizza: picked up in Uptown on Hennepin

- Went to the final Maps of Norway show at the Turf Club. Excellent.

- Ate some great Tamales from the Turf

- B has trouble sleeping all night, obsessing about the high pass filter decision from Fri!


Sun April 5:

- Wake at 9:45

- Coffee and muffins at Minnehaha

- Start at 11:30 on "Hawaiian Punch"

- Shawn Jones comes over to film some recording footage

- Lunch @ the Mall of America where Jason wants to check out some sneakers. Qdoba for B and Chinese for J. Sneaker's purchased from Journey's. Mission accomplished.

- Come back and discuss list of tunes, and how to proceed

- Work on Styxx

- Finish @ 10:30

- 3 songs done on Sunday


Mon April 6:

Jason drives back to Ottumwa

Ian Williams

 
How'd you come out on that high pass filter idea? Room mics or overhead mics? I'm not sure my decision would be different either way. Depends on the idea behind the mics.

I need to see some of this footage, as I have never witnessed Red Tape North.
 
 
Posted by Ian Williams on Monday, May 04, 2009 - 5:45 AM
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The Slats

 
I ended up using the high pass filter on the 2 "non-close mic'd" drum mics.

After much sweating of this decision, I think it was the way to go! I went back to revisit this several times, and each time I kept coming back to the same conclusion. Basically that the floor tom was eating up too much good stuff w/out the high pass filter on.

I just put up a bunch of photos in our photos section. These pics prolly accentuate the ghetto-flavor of the operation i've got going on up here...
 
 
Posted by The Slats on Monday, May 04, 2009 - 5:52 AM
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