Cirse Bi-polar Recording Process, sharing some recording experiences. Options

[Gabriel Leopardi]

Hi!! I don't know if everybody noticed me and my band Cirse have realised our fisrt album called Bi-polar!!

CIRSE BI-POLAR




I would like to tell you about the recording process of our debut album to share with you some knowledge and experience in recording an album. I know that it's a bit long but I wanted to tell you all the details to help you with your own projects. Let me know if you have any question about it.


The idea of this album started 4 years ago, when Luciana and I began to compose the first songs. Our composing process was done recording demos using Sonar software in my small home studio. When we had many songs that we liked it we started the musicians search. The bass player has been easy to find because he is my brother Ziva Leopardi who is a great bass player that have been playing in some local rock bands and also in metal projects with me. Then we had three drummers until we find Luisao Fernandez, the one that we finally choose. Luciana and I gave them the songs demo and they started to arrange the songs. At that moment we started the rehearsals and later we did some local shows.
A local producer’s friend came to one of our shows and talk about us to the producer who contacted us to record a 6 songs ep. By that time I was finishing my Sound Engineer Studies and I decided to buy some equipment start to doing more professional recordings at home. I bought a Mackie VLZ console (24 channels), a new and more powerful pc, a 24-bit audio interface, a tube preamp behringer, two professional monitor (Essi), and some professional mics (Shure Beta 58, shure sm 58, shure sm 57, SM-Audio condenser). I also get some new software like Nuendo, Reason, Soundforge and lots of plug ins. We decided to do a preproduction in my studio and then do the recording process in another one. During this process the band grow up and our arranging and composing abilities get improved. That’s why we decided to record a complete album when we finished the ep that we never realised. We used some songs of the ep and other new songs and we started the recording process of our fist lp.

When we finished the ep we discovered that we liked more the sound, quality and production of the music that we record in our studio than ep that we recorded in other most professional studios. That’s why we decided to do the complete recording process, except the drums, in our studios. We rented some mics like AKG 414 and Newman U87 for the vocals and we used Sm 57 for guitars. The bass has been recorded by line using Aguilar and Sansamp preamps.

When we recorded all the music three different and known engineers started with the mixng but we didn’t like the work of them. Once again the mixes in our studios were better for us than the ones that other engineers did I decided to do the mixing by myself.
Finally we send the cd to a mastering studio called “Puro Mastering” to do the mastering process.
With the cd finished we visited some record labels but their offers weren’t good for us so we decided to realise it with a local indie label called arte dark.

Nowadays we are thinking in recording an ep with some of these songs recorded with English lyrics.


bye.-

gabriel.-

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This post has been edited by Gabriel Leopardi: Dec 27 2007, 05:35 PM