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Batter's Box 1: Lead Vocal: Retro,Fairchild,Federal Rock Guitar: Helios 69 Acoustic Guitar: API compressor, API EQ 525 Acoustic Piano: LA3A hitting hard, Focusrite EQ 4k Overheads: Fatso Room mics: Drawmer 69 or Compex Kick: Sample or Neve or Chandler strip

Batter's Box 2: Sub: VOG Bass 200 Hz: Attenuate tightens up. Notch out 220 with SSL. High 10 k: Crispy, Taking out 2k, 4k: Sidechain Waves C1 Go to deesser: Oxford, Clarity: Take out 300.

echoboy, Benson,

First: Get a groove going. Make it feel good.

35 tracks on my track sheet. There's kick, snare, stereo hi-hat, stereo toms, three or four mono room [mics] and stereo cymbals rooms. That's 12 tracks for the drums. There are two bass tracks, DI and amp bass. There are stereo chorus guitars, a mono verse guitar, an acoustic guitar, and a guitar solo, so that's five tracks of guitars. Then there's a stereo piano, a stereo keyboard track, and the stereo ambient wash that starts off the track. Finally, there's Chris's lead vocal and some 'church group' backing vocals.

Drums: Neve 1083, Urei 1176, ADR Compex, Pye & Chandler EMI compressors

Bass: EAR 660, Altec 436B, Dbx 160, Akai S612, Moog MKPE 2 channels: 1) ear 660 compressor, altec 436b comp, moog mkpe eq via inserts. for low end and fullness. 2) dbx160 crushing no bottom end for punch and mid-range. sent both to akai 5612 as distortion. both through bus b: distressors into avalon e55 eq

Guitars: EMI Chandler TG1, Lexicon PCM42, API 525, API 5502, Roland Dimension D SDD320, Watkins Copicat stereo guitar to emi chandler tg1. mono verse guitar pcm42 delay 224ms panned to opposite side. ac gtr api 525 api 5502. dimension d on solo guitar to watkins copicat echo with short delay.

Keyboards: Urei LA3A, Focusrite 115 HD, Neve Portico 5014 piano two UREI LA3As, focusrite st 115 hd eq. for width, neve portico 5014.

Vocals: Waves Renaissance & Digidesign de-essers, AMS reverb, Zoom 1202, Lexicon PCM81, Watkins Copicat, Empirical Labs Distressor, Federal, Gates, Fairchild 666, EAR 660, Neve 1176 & Awa G7201 compressors 2 ren de-essers and digidesign de-esser. ams non linear reverb, main sound from zoom 1202 verb, watkins copicat delay, bigger reverb pcm81. main part, distressor on insert sent to five other comps: federal, gates, fairchild 666, neve 1176, distressor in nuke mode, all on individual channels, and blending. for the end, awa g7201 limiter/comp. bg vox to same reverb.

ABCD multi-bus compression system (busses come up in center of SSL 9000 J and go to summing amp) A: Neve 33609 > Pultec P1A3S EQ B: Empirical Labs Distressor > Avalon E55 EQ C: Pendulum ES8 tube limiter D: TF Pro Edward the Compressor P8

A: Keyboards/BG Vox B: Bass/drums C: Guitars (sometimes through both A and C, or C and mono comp return, whatever excites the best.) D: BG Vox Note: Lead vox don't go through it but go through 5 compressors (parallel): Federal, Gates, Fairchild, 1176, Distressor

Shadow Hills or ADL 670 Stereo Mastering Compressor > Chandler Stereo Curve Bender EQ Mix down to 1/2" 30ips, no Dolby, +4, Studer A820

A: Top end, Vocals, Keyboards B: Rhythm Section, Bass and Drums C: Center of mix, Guitars D: Extra

Multi-Channel Send/Return Method