And You And I - The Band Geeks

This is our cover of And You And I by Yes from the Close To The Edge album. Ann Marie Nacchio - Vocals, Keyboard Andy Graziano - Guitar, Lap Steel, Vocals Rob Kipp - Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals Phil Castellano - Guitar, Keyboard Richie Castellano - Bass, Vocals Andy Ascolese - Drums, Percussion Produced, Edited and Mixed by Richie Castellano Directed by Andy Ascolese Pro Tools Operator - Ann Marie Nacchio Assistant Director - Brandi Metaxas Subscribe to Ann Marie: Subscribe to Rob: Subscribe to Andy Ascolese: Subscribe to Andy Graziano: Subscribe to Phil: Buy Band Geek Merch: Special Thanks To: My uncle Phil Castellano for loaning me his gorgeous Rickenbacker 4001CS Chris Squire Limited Edition Signature Bass #12 of only 1000 made. Tom Cintula for loaning us his amazing Martin 12 string (which I stupidly broke during this recording and is currently awaiting replacement parts at the repair shop. Sorry Tom!) Please check out Tom’s music here: LR Baggs for promptly sending me replacement parts for Tom’s broken guitar. Ray Magnuski for loaning us his MBrace guitar stand. The drums are played on a Roland TD-11 triggering sounds from Native Instruments Abbey Road 70’s drummer. Some of the quieter toms are coming from the Kontakt Factory Library. The triangle is miked with an Audio Technica AE-4100. The Bass is a Rickenbacker 4001CS going mono into a Universal Audio 4710D. It’s main tone is coming from Line 6 Helix Native. The bass in the first verse is split onto 2 different tracks. A bass an octave down to cover the drop D notes and the harmonics I’m playing sent through a guitar amp with a Leslie speaker inside Helix Native. Andy Graziano is playing a Martin 12 string equipped with an LR Baggs Element system that sounded incredible. It’s running into the 4710D, then through the Helix Native with an acoustic IR blended in. His electric guitar is a Gibson 335 running through Helix Native. For the lap steel, he’s using a very inexpensive Rogue guitar that was the noisiest thing we ever recorded. It’s also running through Helix Native and getting it’s delay and reverb from Waves’ CLA Epic. That track needed a fair amount of futzing to get it to sound like anything usable. Phil is playing his Taylor 414ce acoustic going through the 4710D, then through the Helix Native with an acoustic IR blended in. For the 6 string electric he’s playing a Gibson 335. For 12 string he’s using a Rickenbacker 360v64-12. Both guitars are going through a Leslie effect inside of Helix Native. He’s playing a Moog Sub 37 to play the Chris Squire Bass pedals part. That’s going into Waves RBass for some extra brown note action. Rob is using a Nord for pretty much everything. Some of the synth sounds are coming from AIR Vaccum and Sampletank as well. I ended up using the Mellotron sound directly from the Roland FA-06, so we didn’t do any triggering there. For guitar, Rob is playing a Music Man Silhouette Special into Helix Native with the Leslie Effect. Ann Marie is playing a Roland A-49 triggering IK Multimedia Syntronik and Sampletank. Her vocal mic is an Audio Technica AT-4047MP going into a Vintech 573 preamp into a DBX 560A compressor, then processed with various Waves plugins inside Pro Tools. The rest of us are using Audio Technica ATM-510 microphones. For the coins and crosses Leslie effect, the vocals are going through the AIR DB-33 Hammond simulator. Again I used Waves CLA Mix Hub for a lot of this mix. I think I’ve been watching too many SSL videos on YouTube lol! I also used a fair bit of CLA Epic and the CLA compressors. I have a Waves J37 tape emulation plugin on the master bus to crunch things up a bit. We’re all using Audio Technica headphones. Our discreet monitor mixes are being handled by the MOTU 1248 which makes this entire workflow possible. This performance was taken from several live takes. We recorded and mixed in Avid Pro Tools and Edited the video in Adobe Premiere. The cameras are Zoom Q2n’s. #Yes #Prog Rock #Band Geek