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1. Your Own Road: Stefanie
Seskin - Lead & backing vocals, percussion; Sal Carrubba - guitar;
Marco Accattatis - bass; Jack Gourdine - drums; Jenny Hill - alto
sax
- Stefanie played the cowbell and tamborine.
- Marco Accattatis played a 5-string Alembic Epic bass guitar
on this CD
- Samples on this track were further manipulated
from the originals.
- The keyboard track, played by Stefanie, was
recycled from the original rough recording of the song, created
when Stefanie was first writing it.
- Jack Gourdine played a 1970's white Pearl Ludwig
kit with a 14" birch Pearl snare and the following cymbals:
old Avedis Zildjian 20" heavy ride; old 16" A. Zildjian
crash; old 16" Zilco riveted ride; 20" K Jazz ride,
16" Custom A crash; 10" Custom A splash, 16" Wuhan
China Doll
- Jenny Hill's sax is (coming soon!)
- Sal Carrubba played guitar through a Sowtech amp.
2. Chill Now: Stefanie
Seskin - Lead & backing vocals, flute, keyboards; Terrence B
& Paul Munoz - backing vocals; Luca Tozzi - guitar; Marco Accattatis
- bass; Luca Santaniello - drums; Joel Hirsch - doumbek, congas
- The congas on this track, and all tracks, belong
to Stefanie - bright TOCA Player's Series.
- Stefanie's flute, pictured below, is an Emerson
EF8 with a low B foot and gold mouthpiece
- On this and every track Luca Tozzi plays a Fender
Stratocaster guitar and uses a Sowtek guitar amp
- Luca Santaniello played Jack's drums with his
own cymbals: Sabian Fierce 22" ride , Zildjian Dark crash
16"
- Midi keyboard patch is Cakewalk TTS-1, Organ
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3. Estrangement: Stefanie
Seskin - lead & backing vocals; Luca Tozzi - guitar; Marco Accattatis
- fretless bass; Luca Santaniello - drums; Joel Hirsch - percussion
- Marco's fretless bass is a 4-string Fender Jazz
- Some of the bells on this track are played by
Joel Hirsch, others are samples
4. Jerking My Chains: Dana
Shellmire - featured vocal, back up vocals; Stefanie Seskin - Lead
& backing vocals; Amy Leeds & Morgan Fite - backing vocals;
Luca Tozzi - guitar; Jeff Witt - organ; Marco Accattatis - bass;
Luca Santaniello - drums; Joel Hirsch - percussion; Pamela Fleming
- trumpet; Jenny Hill - tenor sax; Rob Susman - trombone
- Jeff Witt played a tone wheel organ.
- Rob Susman owns King and Bach trombones. On this recording,
he played a vintage Conn 88H large bore tenor trombone
- Pamela Fleming played a Marcinkiewicz Trumpet
5. Nasty: Stefanie
Seskin - lead & backing vocals; Sal Carrubba - guitar; Marco
Accattatis - acoustic bass; Jack Gourdine - drums
- Samples on this track were further manipulated
from the originals
- Marco's acoustic bass is an old generic model
he's had since college!
6. Nothing To Say: Stefanie
Seskin - vocals; Sal Carrubba - guitar; Marco Accattatis - bass;
Jack Gourdine - drums; Emi Yabuno - electric piano; Pamela West
- Bassoon
- Emi Yabuno recorded midi; the patch is Cakewalk
TTS-1, Organ 1
- Pamela West makes her own bassoon reeds reeds - her bassoon is a Moennig Professional Philharmonic with googly eyes named "Einstein"
7. I Just Keep On: Stefanie
Seskin - lead & backing vocals; Terrence B. & Paul Munoz
- backing vocals; Luca Tozzi - guitar; Marco Accattatis - bass;
Luca Santaniello - drums
8. Stay Where You Are: Stefanie
Seskin - vocals, flute; Lloyd Nilsen - piano; Marco Accattatis -
bass; Jack Gourdine - drums; Joel Hirsch - percussion; Pamela Fleming
- fluglehorn; Jenny Hill - tenor sax; Rob Susman - trombone
- Lloyd Nilsen used his own keyboard at his home studio
and recorded midi piano parts while playing along with an MP3 of
the track. He had not heard the horns, and the horns didn't hear
his part when either arranging or recording. Lloyd emailed Stefanie the midi file of his playing, and Stefanie mixed it
with the horns and the rest of the track. Fortunately, the arrangments worked together. The piano patch used
is through the VSampler VXi2, a Vintage Upright piano sound from
an unknown sample library
- Pamela Fleming's fluglehorn is a Benge
- Joel Hirsch plays all the shakers on this track (no
samples)
9. No Such Thing: Stefanie
Seskin - lead & backing vocals, flute; Terrence B. & Paul
Munoz - backing vocals; Luca Tozzi - guitar; Marco Accattatis -
bass, backing vocals, keyboards; Luca Santaniello - drums; Joel
Hirsch - percussion
- Marco Accattatis created the keyboard part using midi; the keyboards
were recycled from the original recording of the song, when it
was being written
10. Be Like You: Stefanie
Seskin - lead & backing vocals, flute; Luca Tozzi - guitar;
Kim Preston - keyboards; Marco Accattatis - bass; Luca Santaniello
- drums
- At least 6 years ago, Kim Preston, who was the
keyboard player of blue number, played a midi keyboard track of
this song into Stefanie's computer. Stefanie recycled these tracks
to add dimension to this song.
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This CD was recorded on a DELL computer using Sonar 4 Producer.
Plug- ins used: Antares KANTOS, Nomad Factory
Suite, Voxengo Analog plugins, PSP Audioware's Vintage Warmer, Antares
Tube, Antares Microphone Modeler - all plug-in's were paid for legally!
All sampling, loops & midi - Stefanie Seskin
SAMPLE CD's USED:
Sarge Makes Loops, Cakewalk Loops - Pro Samples, Cakewalk Loops - Smart
Loops, Rockit Fuel
MICROPHONES:
DRUMS - 2 Oktava M012's, Audix D6,
Shure SM57's, AKG C-1000S
VOCALS - Neumann TLM 103, Shure KSM 44
ACOUSTIC BASS - Oktava MK319, Shure KSM 44
SAX, FLUTE, TROMBONE & BASSOON - AKG C-1000S
TRUMPET - Shure SM57
GUITAR - BLUE ball, Shure KSM 44
PERCUSSION - Shure SM57, Neumann TLM 103
Horn arrangements:
Jerking My Chains - Stefanie Seskin
Stay Where You Are - Jenny Hill
All microphone stands by ULTIMATE SUPPORT,
borrowed from blue number nine, who have an endorsement
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