Sound A Like AUD210 (In The Summertime

Thursty Merc summertime is the track release in 2004 in their album Thirsty Merc.Song structure for Thursty Merc - In The Summertime is Intro Riff, Verse 1, Pre- Chorus, Chorus, Verse 2, Pre Chorus, Chorus (x2). The song BPM is 78 and the key is E Major.

In the intro riff it's playing E, A, B for the guitar riff..For the first 4 bar of the track it start with drums and guitar and at bar 5 the drums was gone and only guitar left.

And Vocalist also said a few words in that then the intro riff go till bar 9 but the drum came back at Bar 8.

The intro riff is going for 8 bar and at bar 9 Verse 1 begins with Drums, Bass, Electric Guitar and Guitar. For the verse 1 E, A and B keep repeating. Verse 1 goes till bar 18 and change to Pre Chorus from there.

Pre Chorus playing for another 4 bar and the Chorus came in. Chorus end around at Bar 32 and Verse 2 starts.

After Verse 2 there’s Pre Chorus around bar 36 that repeat the first pre chorus.

Then after pre chorus, Chorus came in around bar 40. After 8 bars the bridge come in for 10 bars and Chorus come in again twice. In the bridge there’s only Drum, Bass and Guitar were playing and everything come back in the chorus part.

After Chorus there an outro for 3 bar. For this track miking techniques I check the producer’s of the track Lindsay Gravina website. He run his own studio and he also recording engineer of the track. So these are the microphones, guitar amps and compressors available in his studio.

Microphones

Neumann M49, Neumann U87, Audio Technica 4030 x 2, Shure SM7, EV RE 20, AKG Solid Tube (Valve), AKG C1000, AKG D112, AKG D190, Senheiser 421 x 6, Shure 57 x 4, Crown PZM x 2, Reslo Ribbon, Coles 4038 Ribbon, condensers by Schoeps and Oktava etc.

Guitar Amps

61 JazzMaster, 72 Les paul, Tele's, Rickies, Steel and Nylon string acoustics, lots of FX pedals, amps such as Marshall, Vox AC30, Fender Princeton etc.

Compressors

Al Smart C2, EMT 156 Urei 1176 x 2, Urei/Teletronix LA3A x 2, Urei LA 4 x 2, Urei 7110 limiter/compressor x 3, Empirical Labs EL8+ Distressor with link and British mod, Inovonics 201, Spectrasonics, Joe Meek SC1 stereo opto compressor, 2 x Combinator analogue stereo multiband compressor, DBX 160 VU, Aphex Compellor, RNC,etc

So we are going to try our best to get the sound according to the equipments that we had similar to what Linday Gravina had.