We started officially recording guitar today. For the last couple of days, we've been trying to smack some sense into AC30, and it finally listened. Ben got his guitars done for "Talk you down", although we still have some double up some parts with the Big Muff. The AC30 is still periodically making some unsettling rattling ...
I know I'm just a drummer, but something just doesn't look right here.
So yesterday was one of those days where everything seems to be a little off ... for some reason nothing felt right. It wasn't all for naught though, as we did manage wrap up bass on "Ghosts", which is coming along nicely. That is however when things took a turn for the worst. We had the ...
As phase 2 of recording progresses, I'd like to introduce you to where I'll be spending a lot of time in the near future: To help expidite our phase 2 recording efforts, I setup a make-shift workstation adjacent to where we are recording. Since coming back from Hounds Hollow, we haven't had a chance to get ...
About half of the songs we're recording will feature some fabulous Fender Baritone Jaguar; in some songs it plays a leading role. It's beautiful sounding guitar with a ton of character and depth. Trying to record it though, is a little bit more difficult. It has a tone somewhere between a guitar and bass, though it ...
It's nice to have my DSLR back. I had lost my battery chager before we left for Hounds Hollow, so i was relegated to iPhone photos after the first day or so, but after scouring the house today, i finally found it; now i'm back in business. Hopefully that means i'll be posting more photos from ...
Now that we're back from recording at Hounds Hollow, we start phase two: finishing up the songs back at the "homestead". Tonight begins this phase, where we'll be working on some more bass and baritone jaguar tracks. We did get about half of the songs worth of bass and jaguar done at the 'Hollow, so ...
I'm a bit of a graphing/charting nerd (everything looks better and is easier to understand when graphed). Since there is a lot of moving parts with recording an album, a nice big chart to help keep things organized and moving forward makes perfect sense. For each song there dozens of parts to record, re-record, mix, ...
So, I'm posting a take of a dry drum track of one of our new songs called (for now anyway) "Talk You Down". I don't think anyone has heard this song as we have yet to play it live, so consider this a sneak peak. What you hear is a quick drum mix that has ...
I started to comp some bass tracks from Hounds Hollow. We recorded a ton of stuff and now we have to pull out the best sounding tracks in the light of day. Listening back to the drum tracks, I'm really happy with how they sound. I'll post some samples shorty, but honestly they're ...
phase one of the new record is complete. we had 30+ new songs which we narrowed down to 17 for recording. once everything's done, we'll choose which ones are going to make it to the record. i'm sure there will be lots of discussions about which songs make it to the final. but it's a ...
Tracking some baritone Jaguar on "Meteor Flights" by Logic's glow. This will be our first true recording of this song. We started to demo it a few months ago before we ran into some dongle issues; in other words, I lost the dongle. What's a dongle? Well, let's just say that is ...
what works in a live setting doesn't always work for recording. we spent a good couple hours chasing down a loud hum in one of our amps last night. we've figured it out, so I've torn my pedalboard apart to make the most simple chain of pedals I can, nothing extra. this should work... on a ...
drums are done, hurray! now that we've got the right set up for bass sounds, ben is starting in on 'elemental' and i am perusing the hounds hollow library. many interesting books on all kinds of topics - we have trail books, classics by hemingway, sinclair, & fitzgerald, and a few other little gems like this ...
Today hasn't gone as smootly as I would have liked. My Dunnett snare started acting up on me, but we finally managed to smack it into shape. I've got one more song to do tonight, which will make four today. I'm pretty happy with four-a-days for drums. The tracking should pick up ...
it's gorgeous outside - slightly cold and crisp, with lots of sun and a hazy sheen to the light. we got an early start this a.m., and mike is starting to see the finish line for drum tracking in the distance. here are mike & ben are working on getting just the right cymbal sounds for ...
while mike was knocking out drum tracks for another three songs, i took loki to forage for food at a local market and stopped by a lovely art installation called 'the path of life' next to the harpoon brewery. no one was around, so we had the whole place to ourselves. it's pretty cool and ...
what does a beagle do all day while we're busy making a record? well, lots of sleeping, exploring, sniffing, eating, more sleeping... he also has to endure me putting various objects / articles of clothing on him (hey, there's some down time when recording. gotta have some fun too...)
Finishing off drum tracks for three songs by sitting by the fire. It is Vermont after all.
the flakes are coming down ever so softly outside now. after being in the heat of texas and california, it's hard to get m body around the fact that yes, it is still on the edge of winter here. while on my morning walk with loki, we came across some bones by a little creek. ...
day one of drum tracking has gone extremely well. we're all psyched with how the drums are sounding, mike's knocked three songs out today already. downtime in the woods means lots of reading and tea. I've made myself a little keyboard nook, a place to think about extra parts/layers to songs...
Putting down some scratch tracks to song #1. It has begun.
brisk morning here at Hounds Hollow. stayed up till 3am testing drum sounds, rechecking them this morning to make sure we're not crazy. drum tracking begins today... listening to: frightened rabbit: the midnight organ fight eulogies: here anonymous silversun pickups: swoon reading: no country for old men: cormac mccarthy
we're loaded into Hounds Hollow, this place is beautiful. more on that later... new places, new toys, new songs, new record... time to work.
