The Room
Modern World Studio's tracking room was constructed to isolate and provide a "dry" recording environment. Although there is a lot to be said for a fine sounding acoustic environment. This room was designed to not influence the sound in any way, good or bad, thereby allowing the mix engineer a clean start in the mix process. And, provide additional latitude while working with the myriad of exceptional tools to design the sound as the mix progresses.
The room was built with 4 layers of dry wall, industrial insulation, stud-wall separators, ceiling is hung with rubber separators and extra insulation, floor floats on rubber above joists. In short - its a "floating room".
Micing
The mic cabinet holds many fine mics from Neumann to Soundelux. But, the idea is to choose the right mic for the job regardless of its purchase price. Having said that, except for the 57, e609 on electric guitar, 421 on bass, 421, 57 on snare/toms and the 57 on some lead, mostly male rock vocals, we do tend to end up using the much more expensive fine classics as the "go to's". Often along with the lower priced standards for added options/flavor. Using Little Labs phase alignment, we will often use several mics on a cabinet or instrument to give the mix engineer a variety. And, sometimes mic several cabinets as well.
Tracking
In designing the recording process, Modern World Studio opted to eliminate the console, but not do without the character and vibe of the sound of analogue gear at the front end of the path. We have a nice compliment of great mic pres, eq's and compressors which include: Great River, Neve, Chandler, API, Avalon, Universal Audio, Urei, Empirical Labs, DBX, Vintech, etc. to give each track a fine beginning. You may now be wondering, if no console, how do these nicely recorded tracks mix to a great finish?
More detail regarding the recording set up will be continued in the Mix and Mastering pages.
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