Glen Catherine Band, Outbound (2025)

Microphones Used:
Alto Saxophone: Neumann U87
Piano: 2 AKG C414s
Bass: Shure SM57
Guitar: Shure SM57
Drums
Kick: Shure Beta52
Snare: Shure SM57
Toms: 2 Sennheiser MD421s
Hi Hat: Shure KSM141 Pencil Condenser
Ride: Shure KSM141 Pencil Condenser
Overheads: 2 Shure KSM44s

My Roles: Microphone placement engineer, Co-session engineer, Co-mixing engineer, Pianist in the band.

Description: Outbound is an original track created by myself and fellow members of my band Glen Catherine. Our time in the studio together was initially going to be a recorded jam session, but we ended up coming up with an entire chart to record and mix. My work as an engineer was in collaboration with my friend and fellow band member Bradley Rich, and while we both had a substantial role in the control room with DAW operation, patching, and mixing, I was primarily responsible for choosing and placing microphones.

Areas for Improvement: Several instrument mics had the gain too high (Sax, right piano mic, etc). Several drum microphones had issues (hat, kick) which we ultimately gave up on due to time constraints, but the overheads made up for a lot of the lost sound.