Chris Mason (Faulty Cognitions)
SPB: Was the mic’ing of your kit for the recording of Somehow, Here We Are fairly straight forward, or were there some techniques or experiments used to capture the sound?
Mason: We didn't do anything too fancy. I do remember that we didn't mic the toms though -- we just captured them via the overheads after a conversation about how some of our favorite vintage drum recordings are probably just done with a couple of condenser mics placed in a room. This decision created some small issues in the mixing process, but Jesse Gander, who mixed the record, did some wizard shit and corrected the issue. There are also a few parts of the record (in "Sun Sun Go Away" and "Crisis of Faith") where we made the drums sound super spacey and far away, which is probably the most "experimental" I've gotten with drums on any recording I have been a part of. But I've been listening to a ton of dub lately, so who knows what's in store for the next album :)
