CutSnake Studio goings on in the studio

Now available from CDBaby.

Some percussion and vocals came out of Cut Snake.

At Gearslutz:

I wouldn’t even consider doing a joint audio project with somebody who was using windows, because they simply don’t get it, and wouldn’t be on the same wave length as I. And if I stepped into a recording studio and saw PC’s running windows only in the control room and no Macs, I’d turn right around and walk out the door, as that wouldn’t qualify as a professional studio, according to my standards.

Finally a new studio CD from the Okapi faction. (We’re using a slightly different name this time, given the musicians involved.)

We started recording this back in 2007, but put out the live CD before completing this.

We’ll be giving it a proper launch in January 2011, but it’s already up at CDBaby if you want to have a listen.

This Chinese ribbon mic comes in various colours under various names. Here in Australia it’s available as part of the Legacy brand. The Legacy variation isn’t listed at recording hacks, but a bunch of other re-brandings are.

I got one secondhand, and wanted to open it up and remove some of the mesh and filters. But I couldn’t figure out how to open the case. Finally saw a photo on Michael Joly’s site that made it clear how the covers came off.

Here’s some photos I took that hopefully make the situation clearer. Basically the covers are held on with tabs that slide into slits. My mic seems to have a few broken off…

The studio album we’ve been working on since finishing Haram Homebrew will be called Plenty.

Should be out this year, but in the meantime, here’s the single at CDBaby: Age of Plenty.

Here’s a song from our semi-acoustic side project, Kizungu 3.

Nhemamusasa -Kizungu 3

A Zimbabwean mbira song we learnt from Noble Mashawa, with a local lyrical twist.

Ah, the months have slipped past. What’s been going down at Cut Snake?

At the end of January the senior members of Okapi Guitars recorded a handful of songs in semi-acoustic mode: acoustic guitar, congas, tastefully muted electric guitar. The Babu Three, perhaps? Los Trios Muziki?

A little more tweaking should see these tracks finished soon.

Karifi came in at the end of February for a drum recording session. Wonderful traditional drums. Must have been a dozen of them here.

The Heil PR40 sounded great on these.

I did a little recording for this CD back in November 2008, mostly additional drums and vocals. Most of the work was done by Craig Tudman at Lorikeet Studio,

Glad it’s out, it sounds great.