RECORDING OLD-STYLE.......

At the moment we're building our own Homebrew Recording Studio. More news about that soon.....

Meanwhile: below please find some info we taken off our earlier websites.

We recorded the Hardrock Gunter 45rpm single at Ricky Lee Brown's Valvemobile Studio in London, July 1999.

Microphones used are:

- vocals: STC 4033

- backing vocals: STC 4033

- guitar: STC 4038

- mandoline: Gates G300

- bass: STC 4017-C

- drums: no mikes, room only

Other equipement: an RCA Consolette mixer, two Studer C-37 recorders and an Ampex 550 to create the slap-back effect.

The picture on the right shows Ricky Lee Brown (left) and Hardrock Gunter (right) plus 2 Studer recorders in between.

The 3-track E.P. by Mary Ann, released on Goofin', is recorded in more or less the same way; except no room microphone is used.

The picture on the left shows how the drums were recorded. The drums are recorded with one microphone only: the RCA BK5 ribbon.

Close to the bass drum a mike is positioned to correct the sound of the bass drum on the recording if neccesary, but is not used in the mix.

HI-FInformation:

Our second CD is recorded during various sessions. All songs were recorded live. This recording was made monoraully in a Dutch recording studio with Hans Ettema at the engineering controls.

Instruments and microphone set-up was as follows: bass, Telefunken ELA 221 condenser; drums, RCA BK5 ribbon; steel-guitar, RCA varacoustic; guitar, RCA varacoustic; vocals, Telefunken U-47 condenser; mandoline, American D330; room, RCA PB90.

Effects used are: hall, AKG BX20 and slapback, Telefunken M12.

The picture on the right shows the Ranch Girls on a live show with the RCA-varacoustic.

Homebrew Records - P.O. Box 21685 - 3001 AR Rotterdam - Netherlands