Got bass done on Without You last night, after much frustration with Pro Tools. To start out, I went to grab the bass track from my demo session, as I’ve been doing, to import it into the new session as a guide to play along with so I would know how I wanted the part [...]
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December 24, 2008
And another
December 23, 2008
Got bass done on “Status Quo” last night. That’s 8 bass tracks done now. With any luck I’ll get the other two done this week.
I’d always “heard” and expected to have a guitar solo in this song, so I left a “space” in the song for one all along while demoing it. I spent a [...]
“Bass”-ically getting stuff done
December 22, 2008
So it was a snowy weekend in Albany. I think we got nearly a foot and a half over the last 3 days. Not good for stuff like playing shows (The Velmas had to cancel our show on Friday), but great for stuff like staying home and recording, luckily.
Also lucky was the fact that my [...]
More progress and Twitter
December 9, 2008
As of today, the 10 drum tracks I’ve got recorded so far are all comped and the songs are ready for more tracking. Still waiting on one more drummer to track the last 2 songs, though. But at least I can start on the bass guitar parts in earnest now, since the drum parts under [...]
Some more drums comped and another bass track
November 12, 2008
Over the last few days, I’ve been putting together some more of the final drum comps so I can get to work on the bass guitar, and then the rest of the instruments for those songs. Since we kept 3 or 4 full runs through each song, I had a lot of options, which is [...]
Thoughts on recording guitar
October 21, 2008
So, I’ve been trying to figure out how I’m gonna do the guitars for this here thing. Ideally, I’d record a mic’d up amp for all the guitars. Unfortunately, that also means having space for an amp and a mic stand to be set up for an extended period of time for consistent sounds between [...]
Four More Drum Tracks!
October 20, 2008
This is quite exciting. I’ve now got all but two songs’ drum tracks recorded for the new album. I went back down to Easter Island Studios in Coxsackie, NY (what a great town name!) on Sunday. Rick Little (the drummer for Split 2nd Alibi) played on “Drive Me”, “Status Quo”, and “Without You”. Chris Fisher [...]
Another Bass Track
October 9, 2008
Over the weekend I was able to get a bass guitar part tracked for “Fish in the Sea”. I also spent a little more time setting up mixes for each song I have begun so far, so the drums sound decent now, at least for working with them as I continue on this mad journey.
I’ve [...]
Lots to do
September 29, 2008
I finally got a chance last night to go through the drum sessions from NYC the other week and give them a listen. When we were at the studio, we kept between 3 and 6 takes for each song. For some songs, we tried a couple different tempos, and for others, Mike or Tom played [...]
Drums halfway done now
September 8, 2008
On Sunday, I was down in Manhattan at Threshold Studios tracking drums with Mike Maenza and Tom Sposato. Between them, we got 5 more songs’ drum parts recorded. So that takes the tally up to 6 songs done now on drums: half way there!
Threshold is the studio where The X’s (Maenza’s old band) recorded their [...]