Dave, that recording was made with a Zoom H4, about 4 feet off the ground, 8 feet in front of the drums and about 10 feet from the bass and guitar amps. The room is kind of cool, it's a big foley stage. The walls are very absorptive, and we expose the very reflective floor under our feet. So the sound coming off the kit and the amps is pretty live but it doesn't bounce around the room much at all.
I do a little multiband compression in Bias Peak to get the finished tracks. My rig has changed a bit but at that jam I'm pretty sure I was playing through an old Dean Markley pre, Crown XLS202 biamped to a single 15 Kappalite, and an Epifani UL12.
The effects were probably and EBS bassIQ for the auto wah, Bass Big muff, Wayhuge Porkloin for the distortion (both have a clean blend), and it sounds like there was some chorus at one point, a Boss bass chorus.
And yes, subtlety is our bread and butter ;-)
One of my favorite things about this group is that lack of song structure, and the lack of a lead singer. It's like a dream come true.
Thanks for your comments,
James
