Hurray! It’s finally happened!
Hi, Dan! I’m immensely happy for the opportunity to chat with you! I’m a huge fan of your production and I have learned a lot of tricks from your recordings. When I first heard “guts”, I was shocked (in a good way:), your arrangements contained the best of modern sound and old school sound. Joy and joy again!
So, I was impressed drum and guitar sounds in ballad of a homeschooled girl. How did you get this sound? Something between grunge and punk:)
Same question about Bad Idea Right? How did you get this retro drum sound? Did you use same vocal routing for backing vocals and double vocals? How did you get this bass sound in this song?
Thank you for you works and your sound! Its amazing!
Regards, Vlad.
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After we made the demo for Ballad and we were really happy with the arrangement, I went to East West Studios in LA. We hired the incredible engineer Dave Schiffman and put together a band of some of my favorite musicians and tracked the bulk of the song live. Al ot of the drum sound comes from the room mics at East West coupled with the sound of another room mic running through a Shure SE-30 which makes everything really distorted. I always layered a retro sounding snare drum on top to give it a little extra bite.
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“Bad idea Right?” I actually recorded entirely at my house studio. The drums were recorded in a bedroom 
and a lot of the sound of those drums are from an old Ampex MX10 Vintage mixer from the 70s that actually had a blown out tube so it’s extra distorted and messed up sounding (but I love it)
The vocals are routed (for both Ballad and Bad Idea) through my 1176, and then plug in wise I use some Soundtoys decapitator and then Vintage Vinyl for even for EQ scooping!
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Hi! Thank you for answers!