KMADradio: Jane Lee Hooker 3/28/12 Session Announcement

JLH live at Local 269 recently.

Jane Lee Hooker is a NY based blues-rock 5 piece, and I’ll let them say it in their own words:

Jane Lee Hooker plays rock n roll versions of traditional blues songs. Why form a blues cover band? Because it's goddamn awesome. Because five grown women can do whatever the hell they want...and do it really, really well. And because there are few things in this world Jane Lee Hooker would rather be doing. Double lead guitars, a heavy-bottom rhythm section, and soul-scouring vocals are their calling cards. This band is their way of paying proper respect to the music that changed their lives, and, you know, the entire world.

The name Jane Lee Hooker is a play on John Lee Hooker.

Noel Ford, left, in the studio.

Additionally, I am bringing in the band’s Producer, Noel Ford, who you will be working with directly. Noel is a legendary NY live sound guy and all the bands who play in or come through New York love him. He also goes out on the road doing live sound and recording.

The basic will consist of drums in the studio, and electric bass, 2 electric guitars and scratch vocal simultaneously in the control room. We will use the Radial Reamp box to send direct feeds to the amps, but since I own only one Reamper, both DIs will be recorded simultaneously, plus one reamp mic set in the iso (Royer R121/Shure 55, as done with The Break Evens.) Following the basic, we will load the ISO with the other guitarist’s amp and Reamp that using the same mics.

While we are recording the basic, we will have to insert a distortion plug-in on the guitar which is not mic-ed, so it sounds acceptable until it can be Reamped.

The guitar amps used will be very loud tube heads with 4x12 cabinets. One is an Orange, model unknown, possibly this. The other is a Hiwatt.

We will complete basic plus overdubs for 2 songs.

I will edit chain and other details into this post.

Obviously we need to start early.

EDIT:

Chain for basic:

-Kck: D112->VTC 1073-> DSR1(1176)
-SubKck: Subkick->VTC 473
-Sn: Sm 57->VTC 1073->DSR2(1176)
-SnBtm: 414(attenuate)-> Joemeek VC1Q->
-Hat: 451->C24MP
-HT: 421->C24MP
-FT: as above
-OH (overhead) L & R: KM184 (spaced pair, as per last week)->DAK
-RM (room): AT2020 (spaced pair)->C24

-EBass: DI: VTC 473->FTSO1(opto)

-E GT 1 (DI): VTC 473 (instrument input)->mult*
-E GT 1 mult->PT
-E GT 1 mult->ISO panel->Radial RE-AMP->GT amp
-E GT 1 (amp) close: Royer R121{RIBBON}->Cloud->Vin’s DAK->FTSO2(opto)
-E GT 1 (amp) close: Vin’s Shure 55-> Drawmer 1960
-E GT 1 (amp) room: AKG 414 bidirectional with null facing amp->C24MP {we may not use a room if time is short}

-E GT 2 (DI): VTC 473 (instrument input)->PT (external insert ART Tubepak in PT channel to get tube distortion until GT 2 can be Reamped.)

-Vox (VxScr) scratch [in CR] SM7->C24MP

-Vox: L47(fixed cardioid “C”)->VTC->DSR(opto)