Zoe Thorpe Project 2

Code orange is a hardcore punk band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that formed in 2008. Will Yip worked alongside Kurt ballou to produce their newest record Forever. For this we chose to reference examples as we struggled to find a female vocalist that we could work with but they do have other songs with the male member of the band.

This song contains harsh screams from male members of the band which made it a better reference for vocals.

We used this song as our main reference example when writing the song and listening for specific effects, transitions and melodies.

As Will Yip worked with Kurt Ballou to produce this record we can look into works that Kurt has produced before including previous Code Orange albums and Kurt’s own band Converge to see if we can identify any specific reoccurring sounds or styles that we could replicate.

Superheaven (formerly known as daylight) are an alternative rock band from Pennsylvania that formed in 2008 and we active until 2016. Unlike Title fight we struggled It find information about the recording techniques for Superheaven that Will Yip would have employed so most of our research ill be comparative. We looked specifically into the song i’ve been bored and focused on song structure and individual sounds and effects that we can detect through listening. As this is a grunge song we can look into the works of producers such as Steve Albini for inspiration.

Angel dust are a hardcore punk rock band from Maryland, Baltimore. We chose ‘Toxic Boombox’ as our example as we found it one of the more interesting songs. For this song we plan to get our friend Paul Chave from Grassic a local Lincoln band to do vocals and guitar as we feel that we will be able to replicate this sound better with him.

Here is a review of the album and specifically Will Yip’s production that we sourced from Pitchfork

“Will Yip’s production tends to be divisive in punk circles, but there’s no denying his ability to make bands in this realm sound like they could’ve snuck into a 1995 alt-rock station if things broke right; the stuttering vocals from  “Ready 2 Receive U” and “Upside Down” imagine if Cloud Nothings followed their pop-punk muse and worked with Rob Cavallo rather than Steve Albini. In other words, they’re about halfway between *Pinkerton *and Smash.”

Rob Cavallo worked on albums like ‘Dookie’ by greenday and ‘Dear you’ by Jawbreaker. These two albums are good reference points for production and highlights elements of 1990s productions styles that would be relevant in our work.

One of the artists that Will Yip has worked with that we have chosen as one of our reference examples is Title Fight.

Title Fight are a Post-Hardcore band originating from Pennsylvania that formed in 2003 and have three albums so far and two were produced by Will Yip. We found a short documentary that is on Title Fight’s YouTube channel about recording their album Floral Green with Will. In this video they talk about the process of recording and why they decided to do things such as record a song a day instead of all of the drum tracks at once and layer guitar sounds. This video does focus more on the band itself than in depth information about Will Yip’s production but does contain useful tips as to how to work well with clients and different methods of recording for different sounds.  Because they mention tracking everything individually and layering guitars this is how we plan to record this song.

Microphones
Akg original Vintage C-12
Neumann U-87 Vintage Anniversary Limited Edition
(2) Neumann 84 Original
Telefunken U-47 Original
(2) Neumann 184
(2) Neumann TLM 103
Royer 122
Coles 4048
Sony c37
AKG 414 Vintage
(2) AKG 451b Original
AKG 460
AKG d112 Original
(2) Shure SM 7 Original
(8) Shure SM 57
(6) Sennheiser 421
Shure 52a
(2) M Audio Sputnik Tube Condenser
RCA 77 Ribbon Original
Audio Technica 4060 Tube Condenser

Studio A
Neve 8048, 32 Channel Console
(w/ 32 orig. 1081 Preamp/EQ modules)
Studer A 80 2-Inch 24 Track Recorder
Westlake BBSM 6 3-way Monitors

Studio B
SSL 4K 48 Channel Console (w/ “brown” eqs)
Studer A 80 2-Inch 24 Track Recorder
Studer 1/2 Inch 2 Track Recorder
Dynaudio bm15a Near field Monitors
Dynaudio m3 Far field Monitors

Studio C
Sound Workshop API Style 24 Channel Console
(w/ Super EQs)
Sony 1/4 Inch Machine
Genelec s30 3-way Monitors
Mackie HR824 mkII Monitors

Pro Tools Systems
Digidesign Pro Tools HD2 System
(2) Digidesign 192 Interfaces
Digideisgn SYNC IO
Apogee Big Ben Clock Interface
Apogee AD 16X Interface (w/Big Ben)
Thousands of plug-ins: Waves Mercury, Slate, Oxford, Drummagog, Soft tube, more…