17.06.2025

I've been re-recording this album at the moment cause what ive got just isnt mixed or recorded well enough. Its been challenging but quite exciting trying to push my self to learn more about recording but you can really learn a lot just by listening to records. I was listening to Schlagenheim by Black Midi yesterday and I noticed after a lot of the songs finished there's a really subtle tail of reverb left at the end from the guitars and shit. Usually I find reverbed guitars to sound garbage but this is sorta different. You can sort of achieve a very similar effect by having one microphone recording the guitar amplifier speaker and another one recording the room. I keep the speaker line pretty much dry (except for an eq to remove the low humming noise my amp makes) and if you a plate like reverb to the room recording and compress it, it has this really cool tail effect that you can only hear when the guitars quiet. It works really well cause it doesn't overlap with itself like it would if it was just reverb on the recording of the guitar speaker so its pretty neat.

Anyways, been listening to these a lot:

- Schlagenheim - Black Midi

- The End Of Ring Wars - The Appleseed Cast

- Endserenading - Mineral

- Coney Island Baby - Lou Reed

- WhatFunLifeWas - Bedhead

- Mind Is Not Brain - Mock Orange

- Bad Habits - Billy Fields


(cool photo from the new 'Pulp Records' magazine issue)

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