Jars of Clay
Since the release of their multi-platinum, self-titled album, Jars of Clay has garnered numerous accolades including three Grammy® awards and a Dove® award. Over the past decade, Jars of Clay has produced fourteen studio albums and appeared on numerous compilation projects. Their music has been featured in ads for Coca Cola as well as several feature film soundtracks including “We were soldiers” and “The long Kiss Goodnight”.
PreSonus caught up with the band at the Varsity Theatre in Baton Rouge, LA, while on tour to support their most recent album, Good Monsters. While on the road, the band will be using a FireStudio and two DigiMax FS along with a Sweetwater Creation Station, to record each show.
The recording set up begins with connecting all microphones and instruments on stage to a splitter snake. The splitter snake has two sets of independent outputs, one that is connected to the front of house mixing board and the other that is connected to the inputs on the FireStudio and two DigiMax FS'. Two room microphones are added to the recording system inputs to record the room and crowd. The FireStudio, 2x DigiMax FS, and Creation Station travels with the band in a 10U road case and is positioned at the side of the stage.
"We've been using PreSonus products since 1996. We are really excited to be able to record our shows with such a powerful and compact system," says Jars guitarist, Matt Odmark. "I can't believe we can get 24 great-sounding mic preamps and a computer system in eight rack spaces! Thanks PreSonus and Sweetwater."
The FireStudio / DigiMax FS / Creation Station recording system is connected directly to the stage microphones and instruments via isolated splitter snake. This allows the recording engineer and the front of house engineer independent signals coming from the stage.
Here's the input list for the recording:
Input List
- Kick Drum
- Snare Top
- Snare Bottom
- High Hat
- Rack Tom
- Floor Tom
- Overhead Left
- Overhead Right
- Bass Guitar
- Roland Keyboard Left
- Roland keyboard Right
- Korg Synth
- CP70
- Steve Electric Guitar
- Steve Acoustic Guitar
- Matt Electric Guitar
- Matt Acoustic Guitar
- Steve Vocal
- Dan Vocal
- Matt Vocal
- Charlie Vocal
- Drum Loop
- Audience Left
- Audience Right
Find out where Jars of Clay will be recording their next show; visit www.jarsofclay.com.
