Death Cab for Cutie performing with Cascade ELROY's

New Cascade C77

Samples were recorded at Avast Recording in Seattle, Washington. We used two (new, out of the box) Reissue Fender Deluxe Reverb amps with consecutive serial numbers. In addition we also used a Radial Big Shot switcher to divide the guitar signal equally into the two amps. The samples were recorded direct to hard disk with no EQ or compression. It's our opinion that this method offers a very effective way to record multiple samples for comparison. The fact that we used two separate matching amps with isolation represents a more accurate difference between the microphone and transformer options as where positioning two microphones on one amp can produce bleed and skew the true results.

Preamp: Neve Portico 5012

Credits:
Michael "Smitty" Smith- Guitar
Ken Levy- Engineer/Producer
Avast Recording Co.- Seattle, WA

Tips for previewing the samples. There are a total of ten samples - one sample with the stock transformer and the other using a Lundahl. Compare the two like samples featuring the different transformers. Please keep in mind that these samples are in the MP3 format so the audio quality "is what it is". Also move your mouse pointer slowly over samples-this will help you to select the sample that you are after.

Close-up shot

Special thanks to Avast Recording Co.

Seattle, WA