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thinfilm - clutch of pearls

General Notes
thinfilm is a Colorado Original Music Art Project by James Skay and Keith Walter clutch of pearls was written, performed, recorded, mixed, and produced by James and Keith in an Englewood CO basement between November 2022 and December 2024 Mastering by Todd A. “Cecil” Carter, belAir Sound Studios, Chicago IL Music Videos directed and edited by James and Keith, with animations by Carter Bilawchuk, Sunset Prune Studios, Chicago IL Bass on “by the by” from John Holkeboer, Ann Arbor MI website done by James & Keith

Technical Notes
Recorded in a low-ceiling basement with off-white rugs Tracked and Mixed in Logic Pro Recording/mixing technical notes Drums Premier Signa 1991, 80’s Yamaha 25th Anniversary Maple Snare, Zildjian Cymbals Mics: Shure SM 57’s and Beta 52A, AKG C3000, Lewitt LCT 140 Air’s Guitars PRS S2 Fender Telecaster Strat in my heart Fender Twin Reverb Tube Amp Marshall Tube Amp Mics: Shure SM-57, Custom Ribbon Mic KW-1, Warm Audio WA-47 Tube Mic Pedals Electro-Harmonix - Big Muff Electro-Harmonix - Oceans 11 Strymon - El Capistan RYRA - The Klone MXR - 10 band eq Synths “Gary, that little so-and-so” - a Roland SPD-SX Sample Pad “ToBias” - custom analog synth based off Moog Werkstatt-01 “Ozwald, you mess” - custom Eurorack Surge Synth Plugin Logic Pro Synths: Electric Piano (“Rhodes”), Alchemy, Piano, Horns Plugins Channel Strip Emulators Waves SSL E-Series Channel Strip United Audio Century Tube Channel Strip EQs Waves F6 Floating-Band Dynamic EQ United Audio Pultecs Compressors Tokyo Dawn Labs Kotelnikov United Audio LA-2’s Analog Obsession COMPER Logic Pro Build-In Compressors Reverbs Valhalla Supermassive TAL Reverb 4 Analog Obsession Room041 Delays Universal Audio Galaxy Tape Echo Logic Pro built-in Delays Amplifier Emulator Amplitude 5 Miscellaneous Polyverse Music Wider Waves Silk Vocal Waves Tune Interface: Roland Studio Capture Interface