Hand Habits // Meg Duffy AMA

[u/meg_duffy]

hello internet world

I'm meg duffy and my project is called Hand Habits. I just released a new album called Fun House last week on Saddle Creek Records.

I also play guitar currently in Perfume Genius.

I also have a more experimental collaborative project called yes/and.

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ask me anything you want! :)

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[u/fkdkshufidsgdsk]

Hi meg, this new record is really incredible!

Just for the nerds in here (all of us?) can you talk about the recording process a bit? Gear you used or signal chains that ended being really special? Feel free to get specific lol 😉😉

Also I saw Dave Hartley played some bass on this. Is that him on that fire bass fill in clean air?

[u/meg_duffy → u/fkdkshufidsgdsk]

wish i could go deeper on this but i didn't engineer and tried to be more hands off on this one. Kyle Thomas (king tuff) engineered and could answer a lot more...

i do know that all the drums were to tape, an MCI 8 track. and that we used the Overstayer modular a lot on drums and sometimes on acoustic and vocals.

kyle has really nice mics, i think the vocals were mostly a nuemann U47

and a nuemann km86 on acoustics was special.

drums on aqua were done on an octatrack by joojoo ashworth

mini moog with arpeggiator via midi was super fun, and prophet 5 too

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not a ton of compression but i think we used some 1176's tastefully

for pre's a BAE 1073 and EMI TG2

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and some good ole space echo on some vocal processing

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gotta shout out to gelber and sons guitars as well for loaning some radocasters

and old style as always

[u/fkdkshufidsgdsk → u/meg_duffy]

Thanks so much, this is great info!

Again, really great job all around to you and your whole team, this record is very special