The good boys of the band Reflections showed me a great time in MasterMix Studios tonight with some amazing guitar and vocal performances.
Young Patrick Samoulay laid down some amazing guitar solos while Charles Caswell laid down some very solid guitars and vocals along with Jacob Wolf.
I was a little bummed at first to know that I was not recording a Fractal Audio Axe-Fx but my attitude was quickly revived with the two guitarists’ amazing performances.
They spent a very short but productive time finishing off the guitars and vocals for the song “Picture Perfect.” I am not totally sure of the goal of this particular recording but we are quickly finding it to be release worthy.
I will be posting the final mixes on the Audio Engineering Projects page of this very site after I get a chance to edit everything to perfection and do a few mixes. We used a Line 6 HD 500 for all of the guitars, all the presets set by the band. I took the balanced outs of the unit into a pair of API 512Cs. We then used an EV RE 27 for vocals into an API mic pre then into a Distresser and we found that even the dry vocal takes are sounding extremely pristine. We even found some time to do some gang vocals at the very end of the session to round out the shenanigans, using a pair of AKG 414 ULSes at a distance into yet another pair of APIs.
I really look forward to hearing more from this young band with so much potential to excel in the metal scene.
http://got-djent.com/band/reflections
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1840505817#!/reflectionsmn?sk=info
Add these young badasses if you have the chance and keep an eye out for some great tunage.
RJ Ellsworth 