UPDATE: By complete coincidence, I stumbled across a band on Apple Music called SECRET POWERS and I recognized the singer’s voice right away. Looked it up and yup, it’s Ryan “Schmedly” Manes’ band and he re-recorded a bunch of the songs from the Electrolites project across several albums. Doesn’t look like they’ve added any new material since 2014, but at least its good to know that, at least as of a few years ago, Schmed is alive!

Sounds cool. So I hit up Ellis at Cranborne to inquire, and he told me to send him a VO and he’d Mojo it up for me. This is the result.

Now, the first full take is just my original VO recorded through the UAD Apollo Twin with no EQ or compression. I gotta say I really like what the different Mojo circuits are doing. To my ear, Thump is adding more of a transformer like thickness and Cream gives it kind of an analog tape sound. The last take with Thump and Cream together is my favorite. However, to my dismay I found out that the Camden 500 can only do Cream or Thump, but not both Mojo styles at the same time… which is really a bummer.

At a suggested retail price of $349 each, Ellis suggested I could get that Cream/Thump sound together by having two Camden 500’s and running one into the other, but I find that to be a rather inelegant solution. Currently, Cranborne’s new offerings are brand new and not available in the US, however they should be soon. I slipped word of Cranborne’s stuff to Austin at Vintage King and not long ago he told me that they are looking into carrying the Cranborne line of 500 series racks and preamps, so we shall see.

As for now, I am still enamored by the Camden 500 preamp, but with it not available yet and no release date in sight, I’ll probably choose another clean preamp for character work. Currently, I’m leaning toward building a Hairball Audio Gold pre, but I haven’t pulled the trigger on one yet.

UPDATE: Ordered a Camden 500 from Front End Audio! Should be here in a couple weeks. I’m still thinking about getting a Hairball Gold. Contemplating what it may sound like to run the Gold through the Camden

You can listen to every chapter of Shadow Falls: Badlands here: http://mynsays.com/books/shadow-falls-badlands-the-entire-audiobook/

PROLOGUE – Part 1

PROLOGUE – Part 2

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

CHAPTER NINETEEN

CHAPTER TWENTY

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE