Back In the Studio

Don in the booth

On Monday, we went back to the studio to finish the song. Or so we thought.   This time, I just got to sit back and relax and let Brian and Don do the work.  Brian laid down the bass track.  Don, after several tries, got the keyboard track done.  Then he went into the isolation booth to lay down the mandolin and bouzouki tracks.  After 3 hours, we were done. 

So now we have the tracks done.  Next step:  do the mix.  We decided though we'd work on a couple of more songs before we do the mixing.  Apparently it is better to mix all songs at the same time so that the mix is more consistent. 

So, next Monday is another night of recording.  Song this time is Earnest and Lucy.  Dominant instrument is piano and Brian on vocals.  So it might be another night off for me.   I play the acousticguitar underneath the keyboard and do backing vocals when we play the song, so if all goes well with Don's piano and Brian's vocals, I might be called on. 

What I'm learning is that recording is a long process. 

Walking In the City - A Recording & Video

I got home tonight, intending to work on putting together the music for our show on Saturday.  Instead, I picked up my guitar and started playing around with Walking In the City.  Then I got out the Zoom,  played it several times and here's the result.  It still needs some work on the vocals, but once I do this with Don and Brian, I'm sure it will come together, and probably with a whole new and interesting sound.  Anyway,  you'll get the idea from this. 

Recording Our Songs

The other day, I got an email from David, who is the Co-Chair and Publicity Coordinator. He's the fellow who interviewed us for CJSA and now he's asking for some audio clips of our music.  Another reason we have to take our song into a studio, but there's little time for that.  

We have a few audio clips that we have done over past couple of years.  They are kind of like bootleg recordings.  Simply recorded from ambient sound with no mixing.  This is all we can do for now.  I'll spend a good part of this week-end going through the audio clips and pick out the best we have. 

But things like this give us good reason to take recording of our songs more seriously.