Studio Blog, Friday October 12, 2007

Studio Blog #12

Friday, October 12, 2007

First off: We’re experiencing technical difficulties with my web mail so for those of you who have been trying to contact me or leave a message, I’m not being rude, I’m just not getting it. We’re going to try to alleviate this ASAP. Thanks for your patience.

Studio Update:

The keyboards (as little as there is) are done. It’s basically just strings behind some of the softer things but it really fills things up.

So to present: Drums, bass, keys are finished. I’ve been going to town on guitar tracking. I’ll be doing leads real soon. That’s one of the last things to do. At that point it’s just vocals. Vocals… yeah. So… anyone know any good singers?

Traceman

Monday, September 24, 2007

So, last night at approximately 8:40pm, we officially finished up the last of the drum tracking. This last song is a tribute to my dad, who passed away 13 months ago so it will be a very emotional one for me to do. As we listened to the playback I was able to play along with it and work out some ideas I’d been toying with and I’m certain it will turn out well. I also had Dave fix a part that was off and needed to be re-done, which officially finished up the last of the drum tracking.

Afterwards, Dave and I went down to the watering hole down the street to recap.

I joked around with Dave, who was sporting a new, rather short, haircut that we can clearly trace the process of the CD by his hair. When we first started it, his hair was short. Then he started growing it out and ended up growing it out quite long to where he wore it in a long pony tail for quite some time. Then he cut it, and now he cut it again to a very short, cropped doo. I also told him that he can’t come to my house for a while because my wife will see his nice short hair and then start demanding that I follow suit. She’s been on me about my hair for quite some time now. I guess my only response is, “HEY! I dance to the beat of no one else’s drum.” Which I’m sure sounds really tough in a blog that she’ll never read but just to be safe… “Dave, can I just meet you at your house?”

I also had to laugh as we left the pub and Dave, realizing the drum tracks were done, said, “So now what?” The good news is that any one of next three projects I’ll be doing will include Dave on drums and once I’m finished with my solo project I’ll be pretty much jumping right into the next one. So hopefully Dave won’t have too much down time.

And now that the drums are in fact done, I’ll be concentrating very hard to bring the rest of the project to completion. Jeff and I have a great opportunity this week to really get some work done so at present it looks like we’ll be in the studio Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. At this time I believe there are just two songs remaining that need a bass line and I’ll be grabbing either Bill or Jim, whoever’s available, to finish that up this week as well. I won’t give a date when it’ll be done because CLEARLY I’ve not kept a single one yet but I can say it’s getting close. One of the last things I’ll be doing is putting the lead guitar tracks down and we’re closing in on that point. So again, thanks for your patience.

I also want to quickly add that we’re experiencing some technical difficulties and I’m not able to receive any messages that viewers might be sending me. So if you’re at the site and leaving a message to say hello: I’m not being rude or stuck up by not responding, I’m just not getting it. The Amazing Justin is working on it though and we hope to have the problem remedied soon.

Talk to you soon!

Traceman