EP Preview: Erica Glyn’s “Dollars for Thieves” — Five Fun Recording Facts!
Erica Glyn, NYC artist/engineer/mixer/producer (and SonicScoop contributor & video chanteuse!) will be launching her next work, the EP Dollars For Thieves in 2015.
Comin’ at ya exclusively is this preview video with an inside look at her production process. PLUS five fun facts from Erica about this record (below) you won’t find anywhere else. Now stop, look and LISTEN!!!!!!!!!
6 STUDIOS:
RECORDING —
The Bunker, Brooklyn
Rivington 66, NYC
Co-producer Brice Malahude’s studio, Soignies Belgium
Fuzz Records, Brooklyn
MIX –
Camp Hustle, Bronx, NY
Fuzz Records, Brooklyn, NY
MASTER —
Mike Rogers Studio
COLLABORATORS:
Contrary to appearances, Erica Glyn is never sitting still.
Brice Malahude – Brice, who co-produced Static with me lives in Belgium so we collaborated via the Internet. He sent me a more limited (though still brimming) stack of audio files with juicy and awesome highly creative synth, guitar, bass and “other” parts to add to the songs.
Shahzad Ismaily – played amazing guitar parts
John Ginty – played brilliant keyboard parts as well as some cool synth stuff
Joe Tomino – killer of all things drumz laid down steady grooves
Rohin Khemani – played an array of colorful percussion
John Davis – played grooving bass tracks
Jared Engel – played grooving upright bass
Dan Neustadt – laid down his creative crazy synth stuff with awesome harmonic nuances
Sean van Doornum – Killed it with a super groove bass line and guitar solos like a rock star
Ben Roeser – helped with inspiration and creative input.
Charley Hustle – helped mix the low end to make it boom!
INSTRUMENTS USED:
Rohin’s percussion stash – rebar and metal pipes, soup and coffee cans, Styrofoam, broken cymbals, gongs, maracas, shakers, tambourine, triangle etc, 1970’s Hagstrom bass, late 60’s Bluesbird Guild, clavinet, B3 organ, loops, synths galore (Brice, John, Dan, Erica), Martin small-bodied acoustic guitar, snare/splash combo as can be heard on the percussion solo in “Wanting & Wanting”
CRAZY AUDIO MANEUVER:
On “The Killing Moon,” Joe Tomino played a killer rockin’ drum part but I decided after we had already recorded the drums that I wanted to go with a more delicate approach in the verses. I did a lot of chopping in the editing process and added a number of filters and EQs. This gave the drums a more electronic and programmed sound instead. I love the way it turned out.
FUN RECORDING STORY:
I was in my home studio working on the tunes when Jared Engel messaged me to say that he was in the neighborhood with his upright bass, and wanted to know if I needed some of his handy work on anything.
I had already recorded bass tracks but thought there might be something fun to do with the arco on “All Just For You.” So he came over and we recorded a million parts and options for a better part of the day. Just as he was about to pack up, I told him I had one other song that I thought he might be good for. He gave me a look like… “I’ve been here for hours now Erica…. Don’t push your luck!” But I encouraged him by telling him it was a super simple part that it would take him no time at all to do.
He played the parts for “Wanting and Wanting” which had a very electronic vibe happening on it but wasn’t quite grooving with the song the way I had envisioned. The upright that Jared played went perfectly with Shahzad Ismaily’s vibrato guitar parts and made the whole song much groovier.
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