NYC Band Fishdoctor – day 2 -

http://fishdoctormusic.com/

Leopard Studio has just finished a really great sounding recording with hard rocking DB Sleeze.  We are loving having Kol Marshall working here at Leopard, as he is a master of recording, well known for his work with heavy rock and metal acts, notably King Diamond and Ministry!

“KILL THE BAND” is a Brooklyn-based rock and roll/comedy act, featuring Killy “Mockstar” Dwyer. They came in for the recording of their full-length album. We filmed a mockumentary of the making of the album including a confessional camera set up in the bathroom.

Here we are celebrating the end of tracking!

kill the band website:

Just got a malletKat vibraphone, made by AlternateMode!   Love it.  This midi vibraphone is a full 4 octave and has great feel and playability.  I can hook it up to my midi sound modules too…which I have a handful.  Of course, my musser pro vibe may be getting a bit jealous.  I’m looking forward to many, many uses for this incredible instrument!

Over the last 2 days I recorded and mixed 22 songs, recorded live in leopard studio.  We set the 6-piece group (2 guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion with 3 vocalists) up in the live room, without headphones using a pa system for vocuals.

The band was comfortable, just like a live show, and we set our mics up to capture the performances.  Everything was live including the vocals in one room.

Mixing the 22 songs took place on the second day.  The band was really happy with the results – a wonderful sounding recording with a great live feel.  We captured the magic that comes from a real performance!

Excited – just updated my system and computer.  Got ProTools 9!

Apple Mac ProTower Computer
Digidesign 16-input Pro Tools 9HD Recording System including 2 Digidesign 192s with 24 outputs

Last week we had the cool job of recording Garth Hudson (The Band) on a cover of the Pink Floyd classic Us and Them! Doug Paisley, a Canadian singer recorded the song in Toronto, yet wanted Garth’s somewhat magic keyboard touch, and I was selected to record him here at Leopard Studio. What resulted was a really cool part to a nice and original version – it’s quite different from the Floyd version.
It will come out as part of Mojo magazines CD music sampler included with the magazine….

We’ve been recording and mixing an awesome CD by Chris Cernak.  Musicians include Chris on vocals and guitar, Ross Rice on keyboards, guitar and bass,  Tim Allen on djemb, Erica Quitzow on violin and Kelsey Rieber adding additional vocals.