Chris Cohen

"I mix everything down to four stereo buses and I run it into a Sony MX20 Mixer so instead of bouncing in the computer I put it through the mixer and I record it as a stereo file—and that's the finished music. I think this would be the case with other mixers too, but I like this particular one because I think it cuts off some really low and high frequencies. It does some dynamically subtle things. The difference is subtle but I can hear it on headphones."

Chris can be seen here using a red Gibson SG Standard during a performance at the Crystal Ballroom on February 17th, 2017.

Chris can be seen here using a sunburst Squier Strat Affinity Series during a performance iat the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver on November 4th, 2016.

Mic'ing Cohen's Hohner Bartell Black Widow Bass

We could have done mic'ing tutorial with his Gibson SG, however, it was stolen from his van at a gas station in Los Angeles last summer. Chris instead shared a short recording of his fretless, semi-hollow Hohner with its woody texture and double bass quality. "I used this bass on my new record," he interjected.

The bass was run through a Princeton Reverb amp and recorded with a Shure SM-7B before meeting an Apollo Twin audio interface. He also went on to explain a mic'ing technique that no one but me is calling the "secret sauce." This technique requires an extra microphone placed off to the side and mixed without much high frequency.

A Rode NT3 was the only microphone I had for awhile. I think the key is to have used something many times. It is not how good the thing is or your skill necessarily but being comfortable with it," Cohen says. "Even if I go to a fancy studio and they have things I've never used before, I usually try to stick to the things I know. Partly, to not waste a client's time but also because they like the sounds I've already gotten. I stick with those.

In the YouTube video titled "CHRIS COHEN: live in Amsterdam (June 2019) HD" by Still in Rock, Chris Cohen is seen playing through a Vox AC15 amplifier.

In this youtube video you can see Chris using a Gibson sg 61 with that smaller pickguard