What could be better than spending a week in the South Of France recording? Not much at all! Haha
The beauty of doing a MasterClass in such an expansive location with so many rooms is the incredible options it provides. Filming the whole process gave us a real behind the scenes experience which we turned into this course.
Limoux Residential Recording Studios is nestled in the middle of a 22 hectare park, it offers an inspiring natural surrounding for working creatively.
The main control room had a medium sized live room attached to it, which we utilized on one song, upstairs there was a very large room which provided incredible ambience for a Tom overdub a la Peter Gabriel ‘Intruder’ but there also is a small heavily carpeted room which seemed like the perfect foil for the over the top tom overdub!
In this excerpt video from the Limusic MasterClass we show how we got a very dry dead drum sound using an interesting array of mics, only recording a kick and a snare. Heavily baffled around the drum kit, the idea was to get fat, dry full tones with little to no ambience in them to balance the over the top ambient toms and programmed, electronic elements in the song.
Please check out the video and leave me a comment!
Many thanks
Warren