The RedFaux Transmission

Happy Psychedelic Holidays to You!

I was feeling a bit avante garde today and whipped up a Christmas video for you all.   The video was shot around Austin and edited in Vegas Video.  The music was done in Ableton LIVE...if anyone is wondering.

Have a GREAT HOLIDAY!! I'll catch ya all on the flip side. 

-Until Next Time... Over N Out

RED

Portable Vocal Recording with Fluorescent Echo

 Last week I headed over to Colorado to record some demo vocals for the new album my band, Fluorescent Echo, is working on.  We are in the process of writing and learning the songs currently and recording them as rough demos.  After we have the song demos done I will do the synth and arrangement work and we'll get back together to record the final takes. 

This was an interesting exercise for me as I hadn't ever taken a portable laptop recording kit out with the intention of recording vocals. I have taken DAT rigs and a plethora of mics out for sound effect recording, but never vocals in this type of context. In my suitcase I packed a little Lexicon Omega audio interface box, my BeyerDynamic studio headphones and some cables, which fit nicely in my carry on suitcase. I brought my laptop as well as my Akai LPK25 and Korg NanoKontrol which all fit in the laptop bag. I used Sony Vegas & Ableton Live in this session. My singer provided the microphone which was an MXL V69M Vacuum Tube Condenser mic.   

 We set up to record in a spare bedroom.  I set up the "control booth" in the walkin closet and we set up his microphone in the bedroom.   The bedroom was pretty empty except for a big bed which did alot to help absorb reflections in the room, which was good because we also had a window in the room without any drapes. Next time we might want to set up some sort of diffuser, but for these demo takes the room worked out ok. 

The Lexicon Omega did pretty well except I really was wishing it had onboard audition reverb and compression.  When we record the final vocals we will have to a better solution for this. The session went well and overall I was amazed at the clarity of the MXL tube mic we used.  It sounded amazingly good for being a $400 microphone. 

Stay tuned for announcements in the future about the Fluorescent Echo website and new release.  In the meantime I'll be periodically posting about our happenings in the studio on this blog. 

Over N Out... 

- RED
 

 
 

Soundtrack to Firestorm Video Game

One of the projects I was working on while I took a bit of time off last year was audio for an indie game called "Firestorm" developed by Midnight Oil Studios.  I wrote music and created sound effects for this.  A friend of mine helped out by supplying the guitar in the track. The game has been submitted for the Independant Game Festival this year.  I really hope we get chosen as finalists so we can show the game at the Game Developer's Conference in San Fran in 2010.  The guys did an excellent job building the game... Keep your fingers crossed :)

Below is a video of the gameplay for level 1.  Due to compression beyond my control the audio breaks up a bit in this video.  If you want to hear it in a more pristine form I've included a link to the track as well in the soundcloud player :)

The Initiation by redfaux
- Until next time... OverNOut Red