BY Michele Debczak. "That's kind of saved the record's ass really," Gareth admits. We had a musicologist come down to the studio and we sat here going through all the samples and he would go 'Nah... nah... can't do that... gotta change that.' In keeping with the retro-futuristic, lo-fi concept of Thunder, Lightning, Strike, the original tracking equipment was devoutly old-school. But the desk is pre-VR, so there's no recall on it. Too right. It wouldn't necessarily be going into Beat Detective or anything like that and completely going 100 percent tight-ass on it. We thought 'Shit, who are these guys?' "At the beginning of the session, I thought 'Wow, this is fantastic, we can do this,' and then you think 'Oh shit, this is really annoying,' 'cause you'd have to work out what time it was on the other side of the world and there's a delay in uploading it and downloading it, so I'd be sitting around for ages just waiting for responses. S cientists say the world’s longest lightning bolt traveled 199.5 miles and also confirmed the existence of a lightning flash that lasted for over 7 seconds. Cheap instruments! This is also roughly the distance between Boston and Washington D.C. and I’m legitimately having trouble wrapping my mind around a lightning bolt extending 30 miles let alone 450. Address: 2100-A Palmetto St. One day, a lightning storm passed through the park and struck trees and plants, setting them ablaze. We'd sit here, almost in tears, laughing at what they'd done. Clearwater, Florida 33765, © 2019 LightningMaster Corporation | All Rights Reserved | Website Design by. When the Go! "He comes to me with what he's done and I try to make it sound a little bit posher." Was Ian happy with Pro Tools in the end then? We couldn't just press a button and get the recall back, we had to sit there A-Bing the original mixes. "He'd be pressing Record and then running up and down the stairs. One of the oldest and worst lightning strikes ever recorded happened in the town of Brescia, Italy, in 1769. "I also ended up getting string players in and doing some of the strings in here, just a viola and a violin, and multitracked it, real top-line stuff. Team-like Double Dutch chants. ", Gareth sees his role in the project as being something of a sweeper-upper. The mono thing is intentional as well. We wrote the book on static solutions and lightning protection. ', "The next thing, it started getting a bit of attention and we hadn't made any contingency plans for having to recreate it without any of the samples. It's not a good thing to do because in the end it's a big pain in the arse. The highest death toll form a disaster caused by a fatal lightning strike is 91 people, all of whom died when Peruvian airline, LANSA, Flight 508 was struck and crashed into the Amazon rainforest on 24 December 1971. You sort of start mixing it from scratch and then you have to A-B all the time to make sure we're going along the same route. It's a bit of a dark art down the bottom on those things. I don't know what it is with people trying to record horn sections these days, but it always ends up sounding like keyboards. Team sessions found Ian Parton bravely attempting to engineer and record everything himself at the Partons' parents home in Wales. But it's not. Fortress's Yamaha NS10 and Genelec 1030A monitors: Gareth Parton says he prefers the latter for most mixing tasks. At Lightning Master Corporation, protecting your employees and assets from lightning is our main goal. From all of these examples, it is clear that lightning strikes can cause tremendous damage. During the summer of 1988, Yellowstone National Park experienced a severe drought and high winds. "She changed the words and it's got the same kind of feel, but it's mixed slightly more as a single. What most people do not know is that it was a lightning strike that caused it. "The problem across the board with Ian's stuff is it's layers and layers of samples. Most of the basic tracks for Thunder, Lightning, Strike were recorded at the Partons' Swansea family home, using a Soundtracs desk and an eight-track Otari reel-to-reel. "We tend to mainly use an ambient mic for the drums, a Rode valve — budget stuff because it was on a budget — a 58 for the close snare mic that didn't really get used that much in the mix and then a D112 on the kick. One Synth Challenge V - The Filter Strikes Back! Which is a real shame, y'know, when you've lived with a record and it's your baby. "It's not just lo-fi and cobbled together, it's deliberately sounding like that. It's supposed to sound spontaneous and fun, like a band jamming in a room. "Oh yeah. The vocal samples are quite often taken from VHS, the rappy cheerleader stuff is from straight-to-video films. The following are some of the most well-known lightning strikes on record. In fact, there are actually two versions of Thunder, Lightning, Strike: the original illegal, sample-strewn version and the recently released, legally 'clean' version, featuring cleared samples or approximate recreations of them. And it turned out that most of the stuff they do is ringtones. "It's Ian's original concept and on the record it's pretty much him playing everything apart from the samples," Gareth explains. It's an absolute mish-mash. Since all of the original mixes had been done at Fortress, Gareth decided that it was best to work in the same room on the same Neve V1 for the new versions. Lightning is a major hazard that claims many lives every year, the WMO said. Familiarity is the thing about NS10s — you've grown up with them and you're supposed to know how much bottom end you can get away with on them. "When we put the final mixes down, we also go through the Massenburg GML EQ, just for picking things out and making it sound even nastier, believe it or not! Most of the recordings made at Fortress were tracked to an Otari reel-to-reel recorder before being transferred to Pro Tools. So there's a little bit of Auto-Tuning going on, say on the new live trumpets where the player wasn't quite getting the right inbetweeniness and we had to do a bit of tinkering.
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