Happy Easter!  Frightened Rabbit..

Post date: Apr 04, 2010 8:52:49 PM

One of recent bands that I've been listening to is Frightened Rabbit.  They're Scottish... but nothing like Belle & Sebastian or Camera Obscura.

Anyway, this is their recent single, Swim Until You Can't See Land recorded on a Larrivee acoustic with an EV Raven mic (just a standard dynamic mic).  It was done simply in mono with the mic in front of me while I played.  The sound out of this is decent given it only is a $50 mic.. 

Not spending much time on this one, just a first take... for better or for worse I don't believe in Auto-tune!  The song is about suicide, so it's useful to keep the sense of desperation in the vocals rather than making it sound robotic (at least that's how I would rationalize it).  There is a light EQ applied as the mic seems a bit less sensitive in the treble area than the midrange (perhaps due to the fact it's a dynamic mic not a condenser).

The song is in a weird tuning (CGDGBE) which makes for the interesting droning (or one could argue drowning) bass tones.

Swim Until You Can't See Land (MP3)