Ep.10 “That’s Love” - piano & vocal overdubs
Moving on to "That's Love," Matt Ross-Spang and Eli "Paperboy" Reed work out piano and vocal overdubs.
In this episode, Matt and Eli cut piano overdubs, lead and background vocals, and discuss topics like overloading preamps, changing microphones for different parts, etc.
See how Matt Ross-Spang:
- Shows us the built-in pair of U87s on the piano at Sam Phillips Recording
- Mics the piano with a single RCA 77-DX through a Fairchild 660
- Explains when and why he overloads mic preamps
- Overdubs piano
- Re-records the lead vocal
- Describes pushing the limits on gain structure
- Discuss their strategy for doubling tracks
- Runs down his signal flow for printing the rough mix and monitoring
- A/Bs the board mix versus the sound of the BURL converters and playback from Pro Tools
Join Matt Ross-Spang, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, The Hodges Brothers, Ken Coomer, and The
Masqueraders inside the legendary Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, TN, for an incredible recording event, from Start To Finish. Only on pureMix.net
Mics
- RCA 77
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Outboard Gear
- 1969 Spectra Sonics Console
- Ampex 351
- Burl Mothership
- Studer A27
Eli "Paperboy" Reed (born 1983 as Eli Husock) is an American singer and songwriter. After graduating from Brookline High School in 2002, he moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi. After spending a year in Clarksdale, he enrolled at The University of Chicago to study sociology. While in Chicago, he hosted a radio show called "We Got More Soul" on WHPK and played organ and piano in the South Side Chicago church of Mitty Collier. After one year of study in Chicago, he returned home to Boston to focus on music, recording his first album Sings "Walkin' and Talkin' for My Baby" and Other Smash Hits!