“Also using the 1084s, you are able to add the extra Q above 10 kHz, which is nice as well.” “I love the BAE 1073s, but the 1084 is a 1073 with even more options,” he says. Jimmy Messer says the BAE 1084s are his favorites: “The 1084 has a high and lowpass filter, so when you are cutting vocals, you can cut out the noise floor,” he explains. “Having BAE preamp/EQs direct to tape and Shawn James’ voice it became an amazing combination and I am still taken aback about how great this record sounds.” The entire recording was sent through their custom Neve 40 channel console, which is loaded with BAE 1084s, as well as 1028s, 1073s and 1066s. “We used 24 BAE Audio modules and went straight to a Studer A 800 tape machine, which I think has a lot to do with the quality of this record,” effuses Messer. James, who growls his way through the through the song in a heartfelt, dizzying, distorted baritone - all captured by a Neumann M49 running through a BAE Audio 1084 onto 2″ tape. It takes all the fire and passion present in the original Edwin Starr version, while adding thundering bass and drums, hard-driving, up-tempo guitars and an awe-inspiring centerpiece vocal track courtesy of Mr. “War”, the first single from the forthcoming album, releases today. “Towards the end of 2020, I started to try to be creative again and that’s when I wrote the bulk of my latest material.” A new forthcoming album, scheduled to be released in the fall, is something of a departure from his last album The Dark & The Light - which was built around sparse, acoustic-based instrumentation. James recalls the moment the pandemic forced him to stop touring, but how it helped him ultimately begin to dial in his new material: “It was terrible not just for me, but the entire industry,” he says.
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