Repost! A video of Houdini recording their new single “Don’t Look Down” at Soup

Houdini & Frau Pouch recording at Soup Studio last month.

We got us a singer in :) (Taken with instagram)

Here’s the Way Home Band just half an hour later, really getting into it. I’m going to learn how to use Simon’s camera a bit better soon.

The Way Home Band are in for a session today. They were sounding great with their valve Leslie sitting in our project studio, so we’ve put up a little video of them warming up.

We’ve got our reverb chamber all wired up, and we like it a lot. To celebrate, I’m posting some drum tracks we’ve been recording with Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit, whose wonderful drummer David Beauchamp has been worked nearly to death today.

He had a great little kit that he’d tuned up really well, so we mic’ed him up using the Glyn Johns’ technique: not too many mics, lots of measuring the distance between them with tape measures. A Coles ribbon mic is placed 4-6 feet about the snare, and it’s partner is placed exactly the same distance from the snare, in the horizontal plane pointing beneath the ride cymbal. A third mic, in this case an SE z5600 a II, is pointed towards the kick drum, exactly the same distance away from the snare as the two coles are away from each other. The below picture shows the view of the kit from behind the SE, you can see the two Coles microphones above the kit and to the left:

Glyn Johns would often use a mic under the snare as well, and we did for some tracks on the session but this one just didn’t need it, the snare was cutting through fine from just the three. We did have a room mic set up, and the tracks below demonstrate the sound of the kit on it’s own, the sound of the room mic, the sound of the reverb chamber, and how the latter two sound combined with the kit. No effects are used at all other than the EQ on our Soundtracs desk.

Click here to listen to the tracks on our Soundcloud page.

Glyn Johns drum mic technique with reverb chamber by soupstudios

Glynn johns technique with the Coles! (Taken with instagram)

Someone’s back from their holidays! (Taken with instagram)

PROUD ENGINEER: this is the lovely sound of Allo Darlin’ covering The Go-Betweens at Soup.

A cover of a song by The Go-Betweens exclusive to the bonus CD that comes with Allo Darlin’s new album “Europe” when purchased via Rough Trade. Perhaps it would have maybe been more appropriate to have covered something from “Tallulah” but this is the song Elizabeth was playing at the time.

The bonus CD also includes covers of songs by Eux Autres, Darren Hayman, The Ramones, Bruce Springsteen and AC/DC.

CD Album
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=349077

Vinyl LP with Download
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=349078

Omi Palone in the studio.

http://omipalone.bandcamp.com/