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"Testing Mics Again"
(The Official Theme Song of The Listening Sessions)
(J. Oestreich) 1:09

This is a very silly song that I wrote to help directly compare microphones with. Everything is constant except for the microphone used. The signal chain is microphone->Grace 101 preamp -> Akai DPS16 24-bit recording THEN inserted -> RNC Compressor -> TC Electronics M-One XL Reverb Processor -> digital back in to Akai.. The results were mastered using Izotope Ozone. No EQ was applied to the vocal track or to the resulting final mix for comparison purposes. 

All voices except for the electric guitar are from the Yamaha Motif 8 workstation. The Motif voices were processed using a RNP preamp. The electric guitars were recorded in three tracks - two tracks recorded using a Shure SM57 on a Marshall AVT20 amp and one track recorded direct using a POD XT.  

The first version below has no vocal. If you want to mix in your own vocal with any mic, I'll be happy to include it on this page!

No Vocals - Add Your Own!
September 2003
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Studio Project C1
September 2003
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Marshall MXL V69
September 2003
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Lyrics

Spending Saturday morning
With a few of my mics
Listening to them side by side
To find the ones that sound nice

It's channel A to channel B
Back to channel A again
Hoping to find the ones
That I can recommend

Testing mics again
(I'm) Testing mics again

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