Once we got back to the studio and started working on the drums, we bounced them on to a 24trk Radar, and started to track the rest of the Band. 

Ben(Bass) was first up, he uses a really old Fender Jazz with an Ampeg SVTii all valve monster with a 6×10 Cab, we mic’ed it with a Sm57 and a Heil mic through an API mic pre and the 57 though the Shadow Hills, turned the amp to eleven it was that simple! It took over a week to track the Bass, Ben is very particular about what he hears so it had to be spot on.

Then came the guitars, Mike had about 6 guitars he bought along with him, 12 string Ricky, two telecasters, and couple of les paul style guitars, plus with my 6 string ricky we had plenty to choose from.  At the time Mike played through a Mesa amp & Marshal cab. We had also borrowed an old 1950’s marshal head & Cab from the Delays, as they only live round the corner, I had recorded them a long time ago when they were Idoru so we’ve become friends over the years, we also had a Hi-Watt 100w hand wired head & cab plus an Orange Tiny Terror and a Rocker 30. We would normally couple a few together to get the tone we were after, the Orange and the Old 1950’s Marshall paired up quite nice, the Hi-Watt was generally super clean and used at very loud volumes then paired up with some thing dirty. In fact the Orange Tiny Terror was used to track pretty much all the rhythm guitars for Brown Bread…at only 7 watts it’s a monster little thing.

At this stage we had almost all the main parts done, all on the Radar recorder ready for mixing.

In Part 3 we’re recording session musicians and mixing.

Live at the legendary Bath music venue Moles

Live at The Railway Winchester

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Hello World!!Welcome to the Sine Star Project Web site. As we get up to speed this year in 2008 here you will find every thing you could ever want, free downloads, rare ‘B’ Sides, interviews and videos, podcasts, blogs, tour diaries, and perhaps most importantly where you can catch up with Sine Star live.The best bit about this site is that it’s yours! You can comment on any post, post live reviews, making it totally interactive, you can subscribe to RSS feeds of gig dates, blogs, track replies to your post….what more …well lots more…there is of course our music that we spent most of 2006 and all of 2007 making, the new album Building Humans, out March 10th, so that’s what its all about…check it out…see you out there.
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From the new Building Humans album, this is the first of many tracks to be available to download from the site.

This songs overall impact is highly charged, emotional music delivered in a grandiose style.

Sine Star Project’s influences are hard to pin down, a few elements point to some of the great classical composers, but rock influences are also apparent including Queen, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, Muse, Tool and Pink Floyd to name but a few.

 

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Released 10th March 2008.

After a period of hibernation from live performance, but immense creativity in the studio, Sine Star Project kick-start 2008 with their second album ‘Building Humans’, the follow up to their acclaimed debut album ‘Blue Born Earth Boy’.

Building Humans is full of tremendously diverse songs that sit comfortably together, unified by Peter J Croissant’s beautifully delivered vocal melodies and propelled by dramatic, bombastic arrangements. It follows the credo that more is more; it’s an ambitious record featuring over 35 guest musicians supplying stirring strings and featuring a complete brass band in addition to the small arsenal of instruments played by Sine Star Project themselves.

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In the first of four blogs, Peter J Croissant talks us through the making of the new album.

Early 2006, after we had released Blue Born Earth Boy, things were going well, great reviews, some great shows, but I began to panic whether I could actually write another album, strange feeling, as if some how I would loose the ability for song writing.

I spent the next 6 months writing and producing demos to the band, seeing what they like or disliked, and steadily we started rehearsing, one by one we tested them in the live set. At the time I was listening to a lot of Rufus Wainwright, Midlake, Johnathan Rice, more from a production stand point really, they all have massive sonics and lavish productions, some thing I wanted to improve upon from the debut album.

Late 2006 we hired the Lantern theatre, Romsey, situated on the south coast of England for a week to record the drums for the entire album. We started each day with McDonalds sausage & egg mc muffin…two of em!! as Alec was burning it off I was just getting rather large!

Technical note: I spent a long time thinking about how we might capture the best recording we could afford, Brian Lucey, who had mastered our debut album, we had become good friends and spoke at great length on how we might achieve this.

Mics, we used MD 441s on KIK, SNR and Toms, NS10 Speaker on the kik drum, which consisted of two bass drums one in front of the other creating a tunnel, we had the 441 in the first drum, the placed the NS10 Speaker on the outer drum with a really resonant head. For the over heads we had and AEA R88 stereo ribbon mic which sounded awesome, you could just listen to that and you were actually there. Then we had various room mics, couple of C12 414’s in the odd places, like the corners of the rooms were all the sound built up, very thick but useful none the less.

All the cabling was gold plated Mogami which fed the Shadow Hills Mic pres, which we bought on recommendation from Brian, he was not wrong. They are hand wired, switchable Iron / Nickel transformers for subtle tone flavours, wonderfully clean and loads of gain. This then fed the Apogee A-D converters recorded at 96K straight in to Logic Recorder. Hey presto glorious drums as they sounded right there in the room, we had now captured just that.

In Part Two we’re back to our own studio in Southampton.

Sine Star Project Live at Gander on the Green

Live at the legendary Bath music venue Moles