Wyrmwood - Shelf Life

[ianaeillo]

Genre

Rock

Instruments

A lot

Effects

Vocal reverbs are either the venerable Quantec Yardstick or the long forgotten Korg GR-1 spring reverb. A low serial number Klon was used. It’s fine, I guess

Special techniques

Bass was DI through a zod and smashed into an Ashly SC50. Sounds great without an amp.

Released when

Few days ago.

Did a massive double album for a band I really like. They were sort of jammy and a bit prog but worked with me because they wanted to get away from being pigeonholed as a jam band, which is a genre I do not dabble in as an audio engineer. I think it worked.

Recorded in week one on a big API Classic with Metric Halo converters, direct into studio one and week two on a Digico s21 at a concert hall for all brass, winds, and strings. I love that, despite a few songs reaching over 6:00 and 70 tracks, no songs had more than but a few plugins. Relied heavily on outboard and the idea of getting it right going into the box. It was a genre bender for me for sure. On the song What Lies I was allowed to go full So-era Lanois and on Use Me we dialed up some crazy reverbs and went nuts.

Also features some heavy hitters. Mike Robinson from Railroad Earth and Oliver Craven from Sierra Ferrell make guest appearances and they are incredible.

It’s available on all streaming services, so listen wherever you’d like. But I encourage you to poke around the album either at the link or at your favorite site; there’s a lot and it’s quite good.

 

[TimC340]

Really enjoying this, Ian - shades of Camel mixed with Nickel Creek!

 

[Gerran]

Nice work!

 

[ianaeillo]

Really enjoying this, Ian - shades of Camel mixed with Nickel Creek!

Thanks Tim!

 

[ianaeillo]

Nice work!

Thanks Gerran!

 

[Craig Anderton]

And yet another reason why I enjoy listening to "Made in Studio One" more than Spotify Its algorithm would never have served this up to me

 

[ianaeillo]

And yet another reason why I enjoy listening to "Made in Studio One" more than Spotify Its algorithm would never have served this up to me

Love that you listened to this. It's an honor! Thank you for the kind words!

 

[lokeyfly]

Hi Ian, I didn't get a chance to properly listen as I only heard it through my cell phone, but nonetheless I enjoyed the band Wyrmwood, and song "Shelf Life". I'm a progressive genre fan, and at 3:20, when they broke into a quartet (or so) of vocals only, reminded me of Gentle Giant. That being a serious compliment. Of course "their sound" being quite a bit different in a more bluegrass way. I can definately identify with what they were going for. So Bravo on your conveying their intentions of getting away from the jam element.

I'll leave any production comments out, and for all practical purposes, why should I? The song was very enjoyable, and I feel many people will feel the same. Good job, brother.
James