honey-isolated

honey-isolated

Honey is a song by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

R:music

  • Whole thing is on Ableton Live

  • Drums - bad recording

    • Use kick and an overhead mic. Run them both through a TASCAM tape machine
    • Used kick and snare samples to beef the sound up

  • Acoustic guitar - used iPhones!

    • iPhone distortion - probably comes from the mic being designed to get the audio to cut through noise
    • A fair bit of mid-gain and compression as well?

  • Bass goes throuhg DI with some distortion

  • Second bass - different bass guitar towards the end

  • AKG DGN99E mic for vocals

  • Usually lots of layers of saturation instead of compression

  • Harmonies? Copy the vocals and pitch up - usually a good way to WRITE harmonies

  • Tape distortion
    • Cut a lot of low frequencies
    • Pass through tape machine
    • Boost the same low frequencies

This way the low end is less distorted, which preserves the punch in the track. The highs are nicely distorted, giving the effect you want