Producing GILLS

Gills coming back in today for additional recording because I'd like to hear some organ on their tunes.  Production will be done at that point and editing is already done, so we'll soon move on to the Mixing phase.  In other news, Ronan Chris Murphy of Recording Bootcamp finished his review of my Flux Bender EQ.  He shipped it back yesterday so I should have that in my hands by Friday and his video will be up on youtube in a few weeks.  Mixing the Gills EP will start when it arrives.  I also purchased an SPL Transient Designer 2, which will be coming in tomorrow.  This will also be used for Mixing, as I plan to use it to dial in some tighter drum sounds.

If you've been to LBA Studio's, you know about the crazy guitar amp I built.  I added a line input (and line input transformer) to it so I can use it for other purposes.  With the line input, I could re-amp guitar without the need for an external re-amping box, but that's not why I made this mod.  I took out the KT88 power tube and rebiased the amp for a 6L6, which has less power (~42 watts compared to about 25 watts).  I also replaced the 12AX7 preamp tube with a low gain 12BH7 tube (gain factor of 100 compared to gain factor of 16.5).  Why would I want less power, less gain and a line input???  Plate Reverb driver amp on steroids!  That's right, this not a permanent thing, but for mixing I can now quickly and easily repurpose the Gravitone amp as a plate reverb driver amp with a very elaborate EQ and tone shaping interface.  Its now sitting in the control room, connected to the plate reverb.  I'm really looking forward to the impressive tone and ultra low noise of this amp paired with my analog plate reverb.   This next EP is going to be nuts!!! :)