Another Useless Recording Update

guitars are coming along. i’m actually working on them in my home studio, using a DI box the studio lent me. It’s amazing these little devices, in that with the dry signal i’m actually tracking, we’ll re-amp in the studio. fascinating. the next thing i have to do is print all of the reason sequences to tracks so they can be mixed. i think the last thing we’ll have to do is do any last minute tracking, like a piano part (minimal) and the bass guitar parts still need to be tracked, but i’m not the one actually doing those (tracking bass.)

once i get all that done, i have to finish putting together the seventh song, which actually is an all-electronic song[1]. i think i’ve got most of it figured out, but i haven’t touched it in a few weeks. the problem is that i’ve been trying to work on this record while the semester is in full swing (grad school) and balancing that with a very busy, very high profile day job.

i grossly underestimated the effort this record was going to take. absolutely underestimated, like by a factor of 10.

meh, just the way it is.

[1] i’ve decided long ago that every release will have one all electronic song.

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Recording Update

recording is progressing. tomorrow is a day spent in the studio tracking guitars. with the drums finished (still not totally convinced they are perfect, so yeah, maybe they are good enough) it’s time for guitars. i’ve been going over the demos here and there when i can (between a day job that is very consuming and grad school) to refresh my memory of each of the parts, but it’s difficult. many of the songs were written throughout last year (no one has heard most of them) making it a challenge to remember each nuance that i included in the original performance.

the one song i’m most concerned with is “high wind advisory” being the most nuanced. so what it comes out in the studio may not be the same song as i recorded that original demo as, we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Recording Tomorrow

spending the day in the studio to finish tracking the drums. i actually just this week finished working on the demos, so i can at least feel confident that i have everything finished in terms of what has to be recorded. i’ve been sweating that a bit. i had all of the songs down but the demos were all in various states of incompleteness (the very last one only had a very rough guitar track.)

but now i have full demos, complete with overdubs and even ambient elements as well. i even have a (very simple) piano part for the last song, which is pretty cool because the studio has an absolutely beautiful instrument that i have no business playing, but it should sound interesting.

well, i have to say, looking at this next record, it’ll definitely be my most significant effort to date. if anything comes of it is really just an after thought i think. it still bothers me that i can’t “support” it properly but the point has always been to just make this music, record it and just put it out there. the work of doing so is its own reward.

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Off To a Good Start

spent the day recording drum tracks. got drums for four songs. of course i’m filled with doubt, but i think we got it… for the most part.

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Tracking Begins

i’ll be heading into a recording studio (dirty water sound) the weekend of the 20th (February ’10) and spending two days tracking as much as i possibly can for this next record. i still have to formulate a plan that includes what songs to record, getting those songs into clean sessions (pro tools sessions) and making sure all of the parts i want to get tracked are ready to be tracked.

yes, each of the songs i will be recording are completed, i just need to be prepared so that i can make the best use and maximize the time. i’m not sure if i’ll be able to get all of the tracking done in those two days, and if not, that’s ok, just have to schedule more time, on another weekend. i don’t expect that at the end of sunday the 21st i’m going to have all six songs “in the bag” but hopefully i’ll have enough so that i can start mixing a few of the songs. heh yeah i’m also not convinced i’m the one to do that particular job either. lets face it, i’m not very good at that.

i’ll keep the blog updated as this project unfolds.

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