Now we are close. So close. Finally its sounding how I imagined. Brighton sound gave birth to two new bass tracks (All in Favour and Colder retakes to get better tone) and a whole load of editing and pre-mix preparation; making deciscions on vocal takes, organ parts, guitar takes etc… We still have a few ...
Everything is just about ready. Emily got started early this morning. Misty morning in Nevada City. She insists that she’s barely played a note for years but its hard to believe. We now have a haunting (yes, it sounds pretentious to say) cello melody on Confessed Again. When she first started playing the part that ...
The manor was humming with combo organs today. Andi put down All in Favour on the Hammond, Coming Apart on the Yamaha yc-20 and Slow Motion on the Vox. Fine werk indeed. We rounded off the day with ‘Munich’ – grisly Spielberg.
Just had multi-instrumentalist / cowboy / designer and all around facsinating chap Mark Potampa in for some flute at the Manor. This evening confirmed that being the engineer is often a wonderful job. I could sit and listen to gentle tones like this all day long. Forever perhaps. Mark walked in, we selected his nice ...
We’re in to the final parts now. Those little holes that you put off til later. It is later now and we have a week and half before mixing and only this afternoon and wednesday in Brighton with Dana and his fine machines where things sound wonderful always. So today’s adventure was to get Pete ...
Grey saturday breeds this stuff at Orderly Manor: 01: Guitar beeps and intro light chords for Fire Escape. 02: Redo auto-wah guitar for Colder using Garageband as preamp. 03: Tremolo guitar on that very same tune. 04: Vox organ by Andi on King’s Theme, A Heart’s Ease and Into Black. 05: Almost got Hammond on ...
I’ve been playing solitaire lately. Real cards and computer cards. It’s january that can do that to you. You really need those queens and kings. Alright, enough. The solitaire theme continued in the music recorded department today – a lonely day at the Manor. (Dana get back here! what do you mean? – I have ...
Ok, it’s all over – all the christmas lights, fake meats, horse shoes, desert spas, secret shacks, quick sand, hot-toddy, hair-raising flooded driving, fine family time, Rumour Mill and the Stones are over. It’s the next year. Time to get down to business. The only thing standing between now and finished tracking is an episode ...
we are in Twentynine Palms once again. One day we’ll never leave… Noah is house sitting. good job sir.