The Script: Recording on the road with ONE and Duet
Posted on: November 16, 2009
Posted in: Artists, Duet, Featured, GarageBand, Logic Pro, Logic Studio, ONE, Products, Video
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From the cobblestoned streets of Dublin hail the Irish pop rock trio The Script, comprised of frontman Danny O’Donoghue, guitarist Mark Sheehan, and drummer Glen Powers. In 2008, their self-titled debut album entered the UK charts at Number 1, and the band has since opened for Paul McCartney in NYC, U2 in Dublin, and headlined at numerous festivals and concert halls throughout the world. On the road more days than not, The Script take a breather to tell us why they use Apogee’s ONE and Duet to record on the go.
Video Transcript
Danny: We are The Script from Dublin, Ireland, and we are here to talk about the Apogee ONE. We are very familiar with the Duet, this little piece of kit here. We have used that now for probably about seven or eight months, for all the capabilities for us being on the road. We are all producers at the end of the day. Being able to throw down ideas in the fastest amount of time is paramount for us. The Duet was amazing. We were thinking wouldn’t it be great if you were able to have a microphone in there, instead of lumbering around a microphone, jack and the whole shebang? And then they came out with it! The new ONE. They have a small little microphone, right there, which is perfect for those hotel rooms.
Mark: It’s USB, is it?
Danny: Yeah, It’s USB. It’s not actually going through Firewire at all.
Glen: It’s actually half the size of that one (pointing to Duet).
Mark: The big thing for anyone out there is that, as we know from traveling, that carrying microphones can be doggy on your microphone. With microphone climate changes that can mess up your microphone, and plus trying to carry it around is such a pain. But this actually has one of the best microphones I’ve ever heard in a machine. Especially when it’s not actually a microphone that’s just got a microphone in it. It’s got such good processors that, actually, you recorded a vocal on it the other night, didn’t you?
Danny: Yeah, I did. It sounded amazing. Even Bob Clearmountain himself heard it and said, basically, I can mix that. But you know, for people who have computers, even Logic, especially on this mac here, when I hit record, now this has a mic in it, and you’re able to throw down little ideas but there is a lot of latency on it. I mean, when you are trying to throw things down. For those of you who don’t know what latency is, it’s like a 3 or 4 second delay almost to when you sing to when you hear it. It’s very off-putting, especially if you want to just throw down ideas. The ONE has a piece of software called the Maestro. It also has all the volume knobs and all the buttons and stuff, but it’s got a latency control. And I have to say, as Mark was saying, it’s got the best quality mic I’ve ever heard on such a small piece of kit. Just to show you how cool it is, this is my mobile phone. Look at the size of it. It’s the same size as my mobile phone. So rather than you lumping around a whole lot of gear, whole lot of everything, microphones, the whole shebang, to be honest, this is where it is.
This is it. The ONE.
The song you just heard in this video is “Before The Worst.”