Mark had done some recording last year on his mate Alan Coles' album at Towpath Studio http://www.towpathstudio.co.uk/ and suggested we recorded there. Glad he did - the recording gear and microphones are top notch and Mike behind the desk is as helpful, patient and as good an egg as you hope for!
So there we went, for 2 days in May and recorded in quick succession 17 new tracks that we had practiced up!
We won't use them all of course; it won't all fit on a CD, but we have a good selection to choose from and work with.
For the technically minded we used 2 AKG 414 microphones - one each for the treble and bass ends of the melodeon, and Mike's latest toy, a very posh and impressive ribbon microphone for the violin. All recorded in real time (us playing together as we would play live) into 3 simultaneous tracks in Cubase. No multitracking; what you hear is how we play live.
Next step... a little editing of the melodeon tracks...
