Yes. I think the mix has about 32 tracks so far.
Here's a list of gear used on the track:
No idea what drums were used, other than Meinl cymbals all around. And the shells were roughly $3000 for all the pieces from what they tell me. The snare is blended with SSD (Dream kit), and the rest is all in the mix.
The snare and shells were recorded with SM57s. The kick was with an AKG D112. The overheads were with a pair of blue bluebirds in AB pattern. The drums were recorded in what I call the "live" room. It has a more open space with hard flooring.
Diezel Herbert through a Diezel frontloaded 412 with k100s and a 1998 Gibson Les Paul Classic with upgraded pickups was used on the left channel for all of the heavily distorted tracks.
Mesa Roadster through an Orange 412 with original v30s and an Ibanez SZ4020 w/D-Activator X pickups was used on the right channel all of the heavily distorted tracks.
Mark IV 1x12 combo was used for the dirty/clean tones on the pre-chorus, and used on the guitar solo.
A single SM57 was used on each guitar track.
The bass was an American Peavey circa late 1980's with a brass nut, di-marzio pickups (I think), and a sans-amp pre-amp with sonic maximizer. I took a DI track out of the rack, and I took a D112 with Mesa 4x12 cab for more low end. The bass player plays with a pick and had some minor fret buzz problems that will be fixed on the next recording session.
That's about it so far. We'll try bluebirds on the vocals, but may go with a Beta-52, depending on how they work out of him.
I hope after the next session we'll get it good enough to send it off for mastering.
A new version will be up as soon as we have a weekend free to track it. We got rid of some of the major modulation in the pre-chorus. It keeps the rest of the song flowing a little heavier. The band has taken step away from the darker mellow groove stuff and into a mix of the faster paced classic metal stuff.
-Zed
