MastersFromTheirDay.com #3 - Library Is On Fire - "Broken Guitar" - Perry Margouleff - Pie Studios

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"Masters From Their Day"

Can a classic recording be produced in just one day?? Some incredibly talented folks have already shown us: Patsy Cline, Owen Bradley, Otis Redding, Tom Dowd, Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, The Beatles, George Martin, James Brown. A lot of timeless records were produced in a single recording session - songs that we still sing at the top of our lungs.

'MASTERS From Their Day' is a web series and an homage to the 'masters.' Each episode of MFTD gathers a set of collaborators to attempt to reprise that classic work-flow and produce a quality track in one recording session.
The video concludes with the mastered track from their day in the studio.

A week before this session, the band (The Library Is On Fire) informed me that their regular drummer wasn't available for our scheduled recording date because he had been booked for a gig with another band (a reality of life as a working artist -- juggling multiple-projects). It should be easy to imagine the difficulty in rescheduling a project with such a sprawling crew (video crew, studio, engineer, producer, assistant engineer, and band). Luckily, they had a back-up -- the band's original drummer, from when they were still based in Ohio. He stepped-up and filled-in seamlessly...ah, the pleasures of working with great musicians.

As I mentioned, we had just worked with Perry two days earlier, recording Annie and the Beekeepers. Perry and I became familiar with each other's work-modes and processes, and we felt good going into this session. Perry and I sat down to discuss strategy and logistics before the band arrived, and that proved to be a good idea. As soon as the band arrived and set up, Perry went to work immediately setting up the drum mics in the 'Glyn Johns' style, as we had just planned. (read the rest of this blog post at http://www.mastersfromtheirday.com/episode-3-the-library-is-on-fire/)

Episode 2 details:

Date - April 24, 2010
Song - "Broken Guitar"
Artist - 'The Library Is On Fire' (http://www.TheLibraryIsOnFire.com/)
Recording Studio - Pie Studios, Glen Cove, NY (http://www.piestudios.com/)
Recording Engineer - Perry Margouleff (http://www.piestudios.com/)
Producer and mix engineer - Elias Gwinn (http://www.MastersFromTheirDay.com )
Mastering Engineer - Gavin Lurssen (http://www.LurssenMastering.com )
Mic pre-amps & A/D/A converters on all tracks - Benchmark Media Systems (http://www.BenchmarkMedia.com )
Video director - Isaac Deitz (http://www.TubOPopcorn.com )
Mixed at Velidoxi (http://www.Velidoxi.com ) in Syracuse, NY
Assistant Engineer - Jeremy Johnston (http://subcatstudios.com/)

'The Library Is On Fire' are:
Steve Five - electric guitar, vocals
Mark Shue - bass
Cory Race - drums

The console at Pie Studios is a Neve 8068. The microphones used were Microtech Gefell, Neumann, and BBC 3038 (original version of Coles 3038).

The tracks were recorded through Benchmark MPA1 and PRE420 microphone preamplifiers's, Benchmark ADC1 a/d converters, Benchmark DAC1 d/a converters, and recorded into Pro Tools HD.

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[Marakuja77]

Крутаттенюшка

[vincent27038988]

I really wanna understand how the "Rain Drop" effect sounds so good. Normal mix effect will not make it sounds like it. Even if when I open the song with analytical programs, such as Samplitude, Goldwave, I still cannot figure it out.

Also, WHERE IS MY LYRIC ???

[vittau]

I wasn't expecting it, but the song turned out to be pretty cool. =)

[dorianmichaelX]

Some see an indie-punk band who - while allowing the world a peek into their private creative process - put cool equipment to excellent, artistic use, and created a great new song and offered it to us free of charge..

"Others" see a waste because "Others" would (web experience leads me to assume) rather hear Nickleback et.al. or themselves- cause they could do much better (but cannot/will not.)

Also "free"? Most of Haters' "time" - judging by the proliferation & stink of their comments.

[cengeb]

Cool equipment, horrible music, mono tone boring lifeless bland, routine. What a waste of equipment

[cengeb]

what a waste of some cool equipment, are there any ral musicans left anymore, these guys stink

[juanharu13]

I see those sony's.

[mobayrasta]

YES Number 3 is FINALLY OUT PLEASE KEEP EM COMING!!!!!

[CheetahMan3]

This band's pretty cool

[userevil495]

omg soo amazing!!! <3 <3 <3 <3