John Cash Studio Recording Log

We've Moved...

2011-09-30T20:25:00.000-07:00

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Mini Mendez Solo E.P. Day 1

2007-07-10T22:20:00.000-07:00

Mini Mendez solo E.P. #2
July 10, 2004

Songs:

Today from 10:30 to 2pm we recorded 3 songs. I've spent a little time mixing them tonight to clean up beginnings, endings, and instrument eqs. I've added tiny bits of verb where needed.

There were 3 guitars used for this session: my Taylor 410, the old stickered-up Yamaha, and the classical guitar that I got from my sister-in-law Debbie.

Mics: NOVA (most of my guitar work was done on this mic), sm57 (Mini's vocals).

I was going to use click, but we decided against it last minute and it made for some nice flowing music. It's a tough call, but it really depends on what you're going to do with all of the tracks later. These songs are short and sweet, so it didn't seem necessary.

More later.
I'm tired and headed to bed.

My Current Favorite Guitar Tone Settings

2007-06-25T22:06:00.000-07:00

Here are the settings in photograph form:

American Fender Strat plus w/Fender Lace Sensor pickups ('94?) with 11 gauge strings through a DOD compressor Sustainer, then a Twin Tube on it's "clean" setting, through a Rat (now that I think about it, the Rat might not have been on for this one) and then into the Fender Vibroluxe Reverb amp. The amp was on very low, but I was still liking the tone.

I used an sm57 to record to ProTools. The gain on the project mix was set almost all the way up.

There has to be an easier way to notate all of this...

Fender Strat>DOD compressor>>Twin Tube>>Rat>>Fender Vibroluxe Reverb>>sm57>>protools

A Piece Of History In Pictures

2007-05-30T21:40:00.000-07:00

John Cash Studios. It all came from this poster. Johnny has been watching over me for many years. I acquired him from a little used record store that was across from the college I attended. They were going to get rid of it and I thought it was the coolest, most bad-assed thing I'd ever seen.

The original studio was built out of our two-car garage that we never used as a garage. It only held our trash cans and our dryer.

Here's a few pictures of that process:

Closer to completion. This would be John Cash Studio South. It's now our bedroom.

We soon needed a bedroom, so a new studio was erected from the ashes of the "junk room" in the back of the house. Built from scratch. From the ground up.

Flying the rainbow of love...and some new pedals too.

Until November/December of 2006, I recorded with the VS 1680 (preceded by several years of the VS-880, which I quickly outgrew).

Here's my fellow Pushstart Wagoneer, Ben, helping me set up my very own ProTools rig.