Studio Blog
Monday, October 24, 2005
I really want to take the time to acknowledge the musicians who are helping me out in the studio. It’s really an honor and I’m truly and genuinely so grateful to be able to have such fine musicians who seem to be as excited about coming in to lay down tracks as I am to have them come in and do so.
Case in point: Last night Jim, Dave, and I all got to the studio right around 7 at night. Jeff was showing off the new 17-inch flat screen monitor he’d just got for the PC that we do the recording on. I’d talked to Jim on the phone earlier that afternoon and told him he could pretty much pick the song he wanted to throw a bass track on and have at it. He listened to three before getting a good feel for the one he wanted to do.
He played through it a few times and then hit the zone. I think we did like five takes. The 4th one was really good. The fifth one was perfect. We kept it.
It was only 8:30 and I really wanted to try to squeeze another one in but Jeff needed to wrap it up. So while part of me was frustrated about having to wrap it up so quickly when there was still stuff that could be done, I have to understand other people’s situations and schedules (as well as spouses). And the bottom line was that it was hard to feel anything but excited about the track that Jim had just put down.
This past Wednesday was my birthday and being that I hadn’t seen Dave and Jim since, we went around the corner to Buddy’s for a celebratory beverage. We ended up having TWO celebratory beverages.
The post recording gatherings are almost (almost) as fun as the actual recordings themselves. We are able to reflect and get everyone’s perspective on what we’d just done. At this point I currently have 7 songs that have drum tracks recorded. Three of these have bass tracks recorded as well. There are guitar dummy tracks that we use as a guide but will be recorded over once I start putting down guitar tracks. I also have several more that are ready to begin recording as well. Two of these I will be working on with Bill and Phil while the others I will continue working with Jim and Dave. The great part about knowing the different musicians I do is getting just a little different feel when using different ones. I’d love to mix things up a little bit more and see what kind of results the different combinations would yield. Jim and Dave sound great together. Bill and Phil sound great together. Dave and Bill have worked on the same material in the past and sound good together. I would really like to hear the combination of Jim and Phil sometime to see how that would sound as well.
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