The last week or so I’ve been working on two tracks for the upcoming album from
Single Cell Recordings www.myspace.com/singlecellrecordings, the first official release by the Single Cell Collective.
The first track I started work on was Stefan Skrimshire’s ‘Low Winter Sun’. A laid back jazzy affair involving cello’s, double bass, guitar, the marvelous Jonas Backman on drums and the warm moody vocals of Stefan himself.
Have a listen to the demo recording made by Stefan previously:
Stefan Skrimshire- Low Winter Sun Demo
After the initial pain in the ass of trying to get the audio to the pre-amps through an un-labelled patch bay the recording sessions themselves went smoothly. The SSL AWS 9000+ is a lovely desk, I am actually in love with the thing, great EQs (with a option of the G-Series curves) and spot on compressors, and did I mention and the master buss compressor??
We started by recording the acoustic guitar, by the time Stefan had tuned and warmed up I had chosen to use two mics, a Neumann KM184 on the neck and an AKG C414 for the body. The demo track had a duplicated guitar part panned hard each way, which the effect of suited the track so I wanted to keep a bit of a stereo image, but a ‘true’ one this time.
After a few takes, with very little comping to do, we had the keeper. Stefans playing style is very consistent, and he kept good straight levels throughout, reducing the need for much compression.
