Chris -- Don't start getting to excited about the vocals on that Braman stuff. All we did was set up the C-1000 with a pop screen where he could sing into it, put the d112 (near the sound hole) and one of the 690s (near the neck) on the ukele (that he found in the trash), and pressed record. It was before I had the RNC or the RNP. The way it sounds: that's him. He has an amazing voice. The coolest thing about it is that when he gets loud it goes into this Billie Holiday-esque self-compressing distortion. He played and sang each of those songs through together. He did each one at most three times before getting all the way through, with many done in one. I was very happily surprised about how the c-1000 sounded on his voice since it was the first time I'd used it. It has a slight upper-mid grating harshness, but besides that is just about right. I compressed it in the mix, but besides that (and about a million things I did to try and fight various strange noises the ukele made) what you hear is what he sounded like.

just sitting here listening to jonathon braman, wishing greg would post an account of things like his RNC settings and where the mics were. pop, vocals, it is.

once i was in the gregory heights band room, putting amps behind pianos, when the drums started to sound funky. i went nuts tuning the room, and then clicked one button, turning M/S on in cubase, and it all fell into place. i still can't decide if opening all the locker doors and pushing bleachers around while listening in to mid in one ear and side in the other, instead of the stereo mix m/s provides, had been a help or hinderence in the process. at least it had me concentrating on the room. the balance is very tight.