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golden gram :: recording and
song details (or more than
you ever wanted to know
lyrics
locations
recording
effects
song
specific info
locations
golden gram was recorded in 3 places.
1. ClubSafeParking, Houston, some time in 1998
2. The garage of a house where I lived briefly with the girls from C.A.R.
in Lake Merritt, Oakland November - December 1999
3. My large and empty concrete room at the Creamery Studios in Oakland
March - September 2000
recording
All tracks were recorded using Ampex 499 1/2" tape
on a Tascam TSR8 reel to reel,
Mackie 16ch/8bus mixer with dbx266a compressor/gate
and Paia tube pre-amp kit that I built(until it broke) mixed to Tascam
DA-P1 dat recorder.
EQ'ed and sequenced by
john croslin at tiny telephone with me watching and saying
"can you make it sound phatter?!"
Mastered at john golden mastering
effects
roland space echo,
boss dd5 digital delay,
electro harmonix memory man,
electro harmonix microsynth,
alesis midiverb4 (sucky)
Vocals were recorded with an AKG C1000S to paia tube pre (when it broke
I used the space echo for a pre) to dbx compressor.
most everything else was recorded this way too.
Hello,
This is golden gram.
The songs are short. Since I did the bulk of the work, the songs are usually about as long as my attention span. Is that any wonder? MTV taught us if we have to pay attention for more than 30 seconds, it's probably not worth it.
Upon moving to California, I found myself writing like a madman. Songs
were coming to me on walks, subways, buses, in bed. This is nothing
new, except that this time the songs were coming in full, maybe a verse
or guitar line at first, followed soon by the rest. But I had no one
to play with.
With the help of a small tape recorder on a cross country journey alone, a palm pilot, and some old kinks records, I began my voyage in to the world of the solo artist. I set up shop and did my best to evoke the spirit of ClubSafeParking. It is all I could do.
It is probably not the end of schrasj, but you can never tell.
schrasj has always been unstable, it happens when it's supposed to. I'd like to think that's part of the charm.
Here are the tales of my journey in 13 songs in vaguely chronological order. Please enjoy, because its for you.
Love,
Golden Gram
If you are still reading, thanks very much for your
time. If I have achieved my intent, this record rewards repeat listening.
Headphones are nice too.
cheers,
golden gram
