LITTLE STUDIO - BIG SOUND
UK 3 piece The GodSquad wanted to sound rough and ready, loud and with everything front and center (if you know what I mean!). The drums are mainly from the overhead mics with tweaks from the kick and snare mics for punch, along with the parallel compression. The vocals are heavily saturated (I LOVE Softube's Saturation Knob plugin, which I think is still FREE) and the guitar simple and crunchy. As someone famous once said - Keep It Simple, Stupid!
INTIMATE SESSIONS
I usually use a simple two mic setup for recording acoustic guitars. For this one it was a Shure SM57 for bite and dynamics and a Rode NTK for air and ambience. The NTK is also my go to vocal mic. We didn't add anything else to this particular track as Jules's voice is so good it's nice to just let it shine! The guitar was my Martin 00-15, sounds delicious! Left it pretty raw and intimate with fret and finger noises included and a very dry vocal.
JAZZ, SAXES AND HORNS
From my production album Suspense Jazz (featured in Netflix's Firefly Lane). The saxes are a P Mauriat System 76 and a couple of (sadly discontinued) Yamaha 62s, recorded separately using Shure clip mics and a large diaphragm condenser microphone in the corner of the room to pick up some natural and bass heavy reverb. There's a couple of tastefully programmed brass parts for depth and the drums are sampled using Toontrack's fantastic Superior Drummer Jazz Expansion, but it's mainly about the saxes!