Old School Hardcore

[jngreene79]

By the way Necro... I ckecked out the demo. brutal stuff. I like it. When was that recorded? Sounds old, raw. No triggers or line 6's!!!! -James

[Necrovore]

By the way Necro... I ckecked out the demo. brutal stuff. I like it. When was that recorded? Sounds old, raw. No triggers or line 6's!!!! -James

No that demo was recorded long ago. Here is old school for you. Miking two half stacks, bass stack, and drums through an old Peavey 16 channel PA board(remember the old ones with the wood grain sides?). The outs on that went to a Tascam 4 track. Record songs live(btw rehearsal was in a metal storage building). Mix the raw tracks down to right/left, use 2nd tape deck to ping raw tracks back to Tascam to overdub leads. Remix second gen recording back to r/l, ping that from deck back to Tascam to record vocals.

Intro to the first song was created with an old Electro Harmonix Guitar Synth pedal and the vocal overdub.

All recording was done with using virgin Maxell XL-II type II casettes. Every mixdown was to a virgin tape so as to keep generation quality up.

the digital version that I sent you I put through Sound Forge and removed all tape noise as well as building wall vibrations from silent parts of songs, eq'ed using SF's internal 20 band eq to only pull out hiss. not other eq'ing was done. Volume levels were done by hand, no normalization so you can crank the songs through a stereo and not kill the speakers. I then ran all the songs through T-Racks mastering suite using the Vintage tape 7ips patch, to get some warmth back into the songs from digital transfer.

Amps used in the recording were a Marshall Super Lead from 1974 unmodded, and a Marshall 3210 using an MXR 6 band in the fx loop. Bass amp was a Carvin full stack(not sure of model number). Drums were a Ludwig kit.

Mics on all guitars were SM-57's, vocals were recorded using an old EV equivalent to the SM58 and I have no clue on what the drums were miked with.