Hijacking Music and The Moon and Pluto held an event here at the Ozone Lair in celebration of the two collectives joining forces to really put on some great events this year. This event was a great networking opportunity for Atlanta based musicians of all styles and genres.

If you have not already done so, you need to check out the recordings and videos from this event.

You can find these here: http://hijackingmusic.com/hjm-and-mnp-presented-a-great-event-03-20-10

It was an amazing time for everyone, a really good vibe throughout, and I personally was able to meet some awesome new people.

Stay posted for the next Ozone Lair event!

We are throwing a little party here at the Ozone Lair in celebration of the holiday season and our good friends Gunslinger coming down from Tennessee.

Their friend Jenny Wood is playing an early show in Atlanta and will be coming over to perform with them.

And of course the 13DM crew will do some jamming since it is their base camp.

We will be recording this as always so stay posted for some fresh tunes post party.

Party starts at 4pm
Bands start at 7pm

Keg
Grill
Eggnog

Bring your holiday spirit!

For a review of microphones and other ideas used, read on

Before the show I decided to hit up the music store and pick up a few more stands, wires, and a new mic that I had been eyeballing and hearing good things about. The Sterling ST51. It’s nothing too fancy but received quite a bit of good press throughout the internet and was definitely in my budget. Come to find out it is not the greatest at recording toms like I had hoped it would be, based on my previous use of the M-Audio Nova that seems to be a bit warmer. The Sterling is very bright and somewhat crackly the way that I used it for this recording. I look forward to testing the Sterling out with some vocals, and I am positive it would do better as a room mic for the drums than pressed right up near the toms.

Drums
- 2 DR-HX1 Condensers – Overhead
- 1 SM57 beta – Snare
- 1 DR-KX1 kick drum mic
- 1 DR-STX1 – Floor Tom
- 1 Sterling ST51 – Toms

Bass
- SM58

Guitars
- Audix I-5 (picked up a lot of surrounding drum noise)
- 1 DR-STX1 (hardly any surrounding drum noise)

I would like to pick up a few more 57’s or 57 Beta’s for live guitar recording. From past experience they pick up very little noise from the sides unlike the I-5. The DR-STX1 that I used for this show is actually a tom mic but turned out a decent recording.

The entire set will be online in the near future, but for now enjoy this video plus a pretty solid mix of the audio.