Ian Ean Case s New Album, Run Toward the Mountains, Recorded with FireStudio Projects, Available Now

Ian Ethan Case's New Album, Run Toward The Mountains, Recorded With FireStudio Projects, Available Now September 9,2015

[This just in from Ian Ethan Case, who used some PreSonus gear on his latest album. Check out the video preview for some of his astonishing work.]

When I first set out to record Run Toward The Mountains, I wanted to go for the absolute best sound quality I could. I had a unique opportunity to record at a new state-of-the-art recording studio where I basically had unlimited free studio time, and access to some of the best mics, preamps, and converters that money can buy. I worked with the engineer there over the course of two or three days just working on different mic setups, just working on tone.

While I was happy with the sound we got, I also did some experimenting at home where I just have two really good mics and my FireStudio Project; no preamps, rack gear or $600 direct boxes. I was pretty shocked to find that I was actually getting just as good a sound with my home setup, and actually even preferred it a little bit over the million dollar setup at the studio! I'd always had great results from my FireStudio interfaces but this gave me a new respect for them, and gave me a feeling of freedom knowing I could record at home and know that I was getting world-class results. It's a good thing, because I ended up spending two years working non-stop on this album (a 92-minute double-disc), whenever I wasn't playing concerts. When you're not on the clock you can take the time to make things right and achieve a level of tightness that's tough to get to otherwise, and I'm really grateful I had a way to do that for this album.

When it came time to master it, I was so happy with how the tracks had come together that I decided to bring it to the top-tier mastering house in Boston (M-Works Mastering, in Cambridge). I was expecting the mastering engineer, who has worked with his share of Grammy-winning artists and producers, to kind of complain about the tracks I was giving him, as I did all the mixing myself and I'm not a real mix engineer. But he was actually really complimentary of the mixes and only made very small adjustments. I know it wouldn't have been that way if the raw sound of the interface I recorded everything through wasn't solid to begin with.

At this point I'm absolutely thrilled with how the album came out and have never been so proud of something I've put out there. I'm grateful that I had a way to do it the way I did it, recording at home, despite not having tens or hundreds of thousands to spend on gear.

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