Posts Tagged ‘Studio’

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.