Posts Tagged ‘Full Length’

Recording Update 01

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

So, as some of you probably know, we are well into the process of recording our album. We chose which ten songs we wanted to do and then this past weekend Matt tracked all of his drums. It was epic. Took a little bit to tune the kit and set everything up, but when everything was said and done, he probably finished the actual tracking in six hours. Pretty intense! Jon Perri, who is producing the record for us (check out his band The Keeping), used about 15 mics just for drums. They are sounding great.

Bill also finished his bass parts for two of the songs and will get back to the bass station this weekend, whatever that means. So yeah, we are still busy.. tracking a full length album, Maddie is finishing up vocals for the acoustic EP, Justin is editing our video for ‘Panopticon’ and getting ready to start tracking guitars with Evan once Bill is done, and Matt, well, he’s sitting back and sipping some lemonade. His work here is done. Boo yeah!

And with that, here is our first recording update video, check it:

Recording Update 01

Nice Weekend For Some Preproduction!

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

So this past weekend we did some preproduction for the album.  This involved us spending a lot of time indoors when we probably should have been outdoors because it was beautiful out.  Bill was happy, he hates the sun.  I love the sun, but I don’t tan.  I once went to the beach and was asked if I was from Twilight.  But anyway, Saturday we tracked 12 demos of the songs we have written.  We tracked the music live and then tracked Maddie’s scratch vocals over it separately.  Then Sunday we got some brunch and went back to the studio to listen to all the songs a few times, take some notes, make some changes and rerecord some parts.  So that leaves us where we are now, spending this week listening to the demos a bunch and trying to figure out which of these songs are going to make the final 10 that we will record.  THEN this weekend we will start tracking drums!  …and maybe some bass if we get crazy?

Check out some photos we took in the studio this weekend below and the rest of them on our Facebook by clicking HERE.

Music Video / Acoustic EP / Full Length!

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

So, as some of you probably know, we have been keeping super busy. Last weekend we shot a music video for our new single ‘Panopticon’ in Boston (download the song now if you haven’t yet, CLICK HERE!!!). It is currently be edited now, but the raw footage looks amazing in all of its 1080p HD goodness. We’ll let you know when it is finished, until then, here is Justin filming overhead footage of Matt playing drums:

Onto the acoustic EP we’ve been working on for the past couple weeks.  So, it is going to be 5 songs, not sure on the order yet, but they will include: ‘It Never Was Me,’ ‘Cope,’ ‘Bloodlines,’ ‘Sweaters’ and ‘Home.’  We just finished all of the guitar tracks, all we have left to track are some vocals and other random small stuff.  Then it’ll be mixed, mastered and sent off to iTunes and Amazon MP3.  We can’t wait for you guys to hear it!

And the last bit of news, preproduction for the full length starts on Saturday!!  We are beyond pumped.  We’ve been a band for 5 years and everything up until this point has been us working toward this.  This will be our debut full length.  It will be 10 songs.  We wrote more than that, so the ones that don’t make the cut will probably be reworked and end up on something else in some form.  So, keep checking back, we’ll be posting photos and videos to document the whole process.  Follow us on TheHollowSound.com, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, MySpace, PureVolume and YouTube.

P.S. If you are in the Boston-area we are playing a sweet show outside to benefit Haiti relief at Simmons College.  Show goes from 4 – 8PM.  Be there.