Imagine Dragons

Participants

  • Gabi
  • Daniel James
  • Bryan Finley-James
  • Robert Turk
  • Khael Kugler
  • Andy Roach
  • Mark Haller

Recordings

Production Notes

“It’s Time” covered by Daniel James

  • This time around I was hoping to get my vocal effect chain in better order and not rely so much on post processing.  Didn’t quite work out, as I think I need to look at other options (any excuse for more gear, right?).  Oh, and I transposed the song a bit lower to fit more comfortably in my natural vocal range.
  • Gear used:
    • DAW:  Ableton + Mac Mini + Tascam 1800
    • Vocals:  Voices into a pop-filtered Audio-Technica ATM61HE running into a dbx 266xl.  Didn’t quite have the effect I wanted.  Applied post compression, filtered delay, etc.
    • Guitar:  Self-customized HH Stratocaster, using the jazz neck pickup mostly, into a Marshall JCM601 (and using it’s direct out into the daw).  Pretty much as-is.  Used both clean and dirty channels.  Really liking this amp.
    • Keys:  Prophet 08 direct in, a few tracks with different voices.  Some effects applied:  filtered delay, etc.
    • Bass:  Warwick, but with single coil Seymour Duncan pickups, direct in.  Used a Zoom Bass Multistomp.  Pretty much dry.
    • Drums:  Acoustic-ish style in the daw via midi keyboard.  One track for cymbals, another for everything else.  Applied post compression and quantization.
    • Mastering:  Multi-band compressor and limiter.

“Believer” covered by Bryan Finley-James and Khael Kugler

  • Recorded as an online collaboration.
  • Gear used:
    • Recording tool:  Acapella app on iPhone.
    • Keys:  Acoustic piano (Khael)
    • Guitar:  Acoustic classical guitar (Bryan)
    • Drums:  Acoustic DDrum kit (Bryan)

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