Zechs Marquise Live @ O Zone Lair

Zechs Marquise, along with 13 Day Mission, performed live at the O Zone Lair for a slew of Atlanta area fans. This was the first real show that O Zone Lair hosted and we definitely tracked it. Unfortunately the 13 Day Mission set audio did not turn out so great, and we did not get any video. We did however get some really great tracks for Zechs Marquise.

Zechs Marquise were all really great guys and their music was jamming hard. For a review of the evening please visit O Team Press.

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.