Vulfpeck • "Prom" • live in studio

A funky behind-the-scenes look at Vulfrecords Records' house rhythm section.

JACK STRATTON -- drums, tune
WOODY GOSS -- rhodes
JOE DART -- bass
THEO KATZMAN -- guitar


CREW

JAKE MERKIN
1st engineer, mixing, video editing

NICK NAGURKA
2nd engineer, tape-op

JACK STRATTON
mastering

CAM OPS

PAT WAKEFIELD
ERIC LAPOINTE
ELEANOR SCHMITT

jakemerkin.com

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[HighDrummer1]

Vulfpeck are my new favorite band :D

[omrix2]

My head just exploded,the 6th time,and this is the first time that i watch this.

Do you have an album?

[ShablulZoem]

thanks for answering all these questions. you have been very informative and cool.

I just made my own home studio, making acoustics fitting for recording drums, piano and I got a pair of ns10 with a hafler amp, and I intend to make my music here. I recorded two tracks already and I would love to have your opinion about them. any way I can contact you outside this video? e-mail? facebook?

[jmerkin]

@ShablulZoem I wouldn't think so. Even beyond the coloration that the tape adds (and all the other outboard analogue gear - api vision, compressors, plate reverb, analogue delay, etc.), I am certain that we would have made different music if it were recorded digitally. These guys only had two or three takes at most to nail this live. There was no editing, and there was a spontaneity that would not have survived the digital process. Sonically, though, the tape does a lot.

[ShablulZoem]

@jmerkin how you do it? can you do it in a DAW setting?

[jmerkin]

@ShablulZoem yeah, you can hear it get initiated by the rhodes as he does that little pickup to the top of the bar before the hiss enters. Thanks for all these questions - keep em coming!

[jmerkin]

@ShablulZoem not totally sure. Maybe your speakers are backwards? I'm hearing it in the left I think. If you're referring to the hissy high frequency swells (two of them), I was feeding the delay return back into the delay and turning up and down the send from the return during mixing to create that texture. So, in those moments the delay feeds back into itself.

[jmerkin]

@ShablulZoem It was mono. Any stereo imaging comes from the overheads. I balanced the two mics during recording to get the timbre I wanted and printed the combo to one track of tape, so the signal I'm mixing is a combination of those two mics (in mono).

[jmerkin]

@ShablulZoem The rhodes was DI'ed, but for the sake of the players and balance in the room mic it was also put out an amp. Not sure what kind (roland I think), but the reason it's just the room mic at the beginning is that there's nothing else playing - when drums/band come in, there's barely any rhodes in the room mic. Thx for watching. This was part of my thesis for my BFA in performing arts technology at U of M.

[ShablulZoem]

@jmerkin and what's going on in 2:11 in the right side?

[ShablulZoem]

@jmerkin the snare is in stereo? you panned the c451 and sm57?

[ShablulZoem]

@jmerkin so the rhodes weren't DI... you remember perhaps which amp you used to amp it? this is a great reference for sound and I got a seventy three rhodes - I want to find an amp for it. you guys are really cool btw, you study audio engineering or something there?