Just ate some crappy teriyaki. Listening to the Ace Man's podcast while we mix, which is process that requires 5 minutes of input for every half hour or so. There's no telling when I will be needed, I just have to be standing by when the time comes. Thank God for laptops!
This project so far has been the most fun and rewarding I've done, as far as studio work is concerned. When I recorded All The Great Aviators Agree with the Slow Drags, it was a much different process. That album was recorded over a 2 year period, and each musician laid down their part separately to a click track. This makes it easier to piece stuff in over the course of a long period of time, but it really loses the cohesiveness you get when the whole band plays in the room at the same time. It's nearly impossible to have all the notes gel together to form a song when they are played at different times.
So this album we tracked "Live". Obviously, we did a few takes of each song picked the best one. We also did "punch in" a few places to fix things. And the vocals / aux percussion were overdubbed. I much prefer this approach. Upon first listen to the first raw track yesterday we knew this was going to be great. It's just a 5 song EP which we are spending a total of 2 days on, so Sgt. Pepper it is not. But it's got a great rock and roll sound. Think 70s Springsteen meets early Oasis.
More to come...
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