Portastatic – Be Still Please
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2006 album Be Still Please.
Music from Be Still Please
Artists on Be Still Please
Gear Used On Be Still Please
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Portastatic – Be Still Please (2006). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Studio Equipment used by Mac McCaughan on Be Still Please
Roland VS-1680 Digital Studio Workstation
Avg price: $201.00
In Tape Op interview with Larry Crane, he mentions using Roland VS-1680 while recording Portastatic's "Summer of the Shark" album:
John Plymale is great with that. I mixed Be Still Please, the last Portastatic record, with John as well as Summer of the Shark. John's a master of the EQ in terms of what you're saying. Instead of just panning something to a different place or turning it up or turning it down — just EQ'ing something so that it sits in the right place and you hear it. When I brought in Summer of the Shark and we had to dub all that stuff out of my Roland VS-1680 two tracks at a time, it just took for fucking ever. Those tracks had been recorded onto reel-to-reel 8-track, then dumped into the 16- track. There was a guitar solo that was on a track with some other guitar but the guitar solo was slightly out of tune and there was no way to separate it out — but he EQ'd it so that it didn't sound as out of tune.
