4/25/16 - Posted on 2016-05-02 by William Assama

11am 

I met Feral the Earthworm, very interesting character, he spoke  very positively about Austin and the weather here. I personally thought He was a student yet he introduced himself as and artist. I recognize he has a very good studio voice, even though he claimed to be congested that day. As we enter Studio B Nick tells me to set up a M88 for his vocals, with 2 pop filters. I have yet to see  an artist use this mic on Main vocals; M88 HyperCardioid polar pattern made vocal sound great as it rejected sounds coming from sides a little bit sensitive on rear . He focused on his third album, recorded 4 songs in 4 hrs, which is really time efficient for nick and any engineer. He had practiced all his punch lines and melodies to near perfect and landed some strong rhythmic rhymes. His sample heavy and like I said musically driven as he seems to study artist like 'NAS". All of his rough mixes sounded great. To listen to Feral the Earthworm go to feraltheearthworm.com.

4:30 Pm

Chris was next, he also was very prepared, Apparently Chris is the lead singer of a local band here in Austin, He came in to lay the vocals on 2 of his bands upcoming EP. Guitar was driven yet, Movie score ready. Chris seems to embrace to space as soon as he entered and he started warming up his vocal and already sounded really good. Nick had me set up 2 different mics on his vocal performance; U67, and 4038. The u67 is a very detailed  thanks to its large diaphragm condenser used to make illusion that Chris was in the room while 4038 transducers ribbon would, this is an old famous BBC microphone. it feels more of a warm and its clear balanced response to sound signal. The two microphone combined were ready for take off. Chris had active guitar and bass reacting to the drummer yet cool flowing. Very fun rides to listen to passionate records they had are movie scores and love songs for the women. As Chris did a great Job, Nick rerecorded both tunes through the HEDD, which Harmonically-enhanced the records. 

Great day on 5th street