hot pants from the archives
Here's something that came up in the shuffle today. It's an instrumental song called Hot Pants that I wrote and recorded with my friend Sam Getz. Sam is a very gifted guitar player who is now on tour with Stephen Kellog and the Sixers (here he is in live bearded mode:
For the drums I ran a keyboard percussive bass sound through two large speaker cabinets, put the speakers in the booth and recorded them with a single Neumann 287 through a Joemeek mic preamp. We recorded Sam playing the snare separately from the drum fills and cymbals just for the heck of it, and I compressed the crap out of them with the Joemeek and then again in the final mix. The high hat is also a keyboard sample, and was recorded on yet another separate take. Sam was very patient with my eccentricities.
I forget who played the Egg, but they did a darn good job.
I engineered, mixed and produced. This was part of a three song (with a fourth bonus track added) project we did just before I moved from Ohio to PA. We called ourselves Wrath of the Mosquito; it was just a random name we came up with. Maybe later I'll post the bonus track, which is much more low-tech and based on a true story.
But for now, Hot Pants...
