Summerfest Sessions: Alexa Carter Performance & Interview

admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:16:36 +0000

Touring with Staind frontman Aaron Lewis and slated to head out on the road with him once again, big things are happening for singer and recording artist Alexa Carter. With the release of The Ballerina EP earlier this spring, she is headed back into the studio to record her first full length album. Without pigeonholing Alexa Carter into a particular genre, she likes to describe her sound from those artists which influence her like OneRepublic and Sara Bareilles.

For the session we used the Sennheiser e935 Cardioid Dynamic Microphones for the vocals in the tracking room. The guitars were tracked using the Sennheiser e914 instrument microphones. All of the microphones were running into the Presonus StudioLive 24.4.2 FireWire interface and live sound mixer. The StudioLive was then routed to Pro Tools 10 via a single FireWire cable. Within Pro Tools 10 we used their extensive sets of plug ins but generally stuck to their phenomenal reverb plug ins to bring out the sounds of the acoustic guitar and vocals.

After the session, I sat down with Alexa to talk about studio experiences, touring with Aaron Lewis, and her thoughts on the UniqueSquared Mobile Studio.

Read the entire interview.