Eugene's House Sessions: Episode 109. Anna P.

This is the last recorded song from a session back in March 2023 with the Ukrainian gang. Here we're playing Dennis's original "Anna P."
Dennis Adu - trumpet/composition
Boris Mogylevskiy - alto sax
Eugene Pugachov - guitar
Julian Smith - bass
Nathan Ellman-Bell - drums
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[@SoftAnswerSound]

Thanks

[@eugenepugachov]

Thanks for listening!

[@marcwhy]

Yeah! Hip tune and playing - thanks for posting these, Eugene!

[@eugenepugachov]

Thanks a lot Marc!

[@normalizedaudio2481]

Sounds really good with real nice levels and good mixing. You can tell from the sound of it that he is running the reel to reel pretty fast. 15IPS 7.5? I can hear that stuff. You guys who worked with tape know what I'm talking about. I miss this so much. I was cutting and splicing tape. The tape sound is so nice to hear again. Like an old friend from the old days! It's a pretty good one. I started on the Studer 2 tack recorder. Why not start with the best? Just record 2 track on the Stude. The reel to reel was as big as an electric stove and you would roll it around the studio. Great recorder.

[@eugenepugachov]

@@normalizedaudio2481 Hey man, hate to say this but this one was recorded digitally. I’m posting old sessions right now that I still had left in storage. I’m waiting for the baby to grow up a bit more to restart sessions again. Most of the stuff I have left is from 2022-23 when I didn’t have the tape machine yet. The last fully analog mix was “James” that I posted last week. Whenever there’s a tape mix I add “ON TAPE” in the description but I guess that’s that obvious for most people.
With this one I did send it through the SSL and used my Lexicon PCM60 verb so it definitely has the analog vibe. Thanks again for watching and commenting!

[@normalizedaudio2481]

Mastering Chain: What to do when it's all there? Treat it more like a classical piano performance. Shape envelopes to increase contrast between the solos. Just attenuate slightly. It's easy to make it worse. Careful with Parametric EQ. Drop a little bottom. This is more like what you should get in a professional situation. So, you are using amplitude envelopes to just go with what they are doing now. First head, last head? Good one for reference tracks. Listen to some of the Blue Note recordings. "Tame the Tape" Normally you don't get this open, tape sound. So, here you are pushing against that tape. It's a subtle kind of LP mastering. Reference: BEETHOVEN | Piano Trio. These are fun to work with because it's not all Fkd up to start from. Be peace mastering engineers and always avoid the dreaded Copyright Takedown by following the whack a mole model. This is fun one, lead you in some nice directions. Not perfect; but, good enough to work with.