just back from a days recording at Brighton sound with Lee Bob, Marc, Dana and us lot. we did a cool cool motowny tune with Lee involving some ridiculous jamming and a wild straight through double take. Dirty stuff. dirty. then a quick run through 3 of our tunes – ‘Slow Motion’, and two new ...
Today we are mastering. in fact its time to go right now… The other day we went to SF. here’s some pictures oh, that’s the Luckey Remington.
i’m sitting here listening to Dana tweaking the drum sounds of our final track and it occurs to me that its all coming to an end. The process of recording has spanned many months, if not so many actual days, and aside from the inevitable self-doubting moments its been a beautiful thing. So now we’re ...
Back to the Hangar in a minute… We have 4 songs to complete and 2 to remix if possible. Things sometimes change over night and what you thought was ‘it’ was not it but something very close to it. Spent the wee hours last night adding some stuff to “the Dream Ends in Fury” but ...
We mixed for something like 18 hours yesterday. Til almost 6am. It was brutal and our ears were blacking out but we got very cclose to completion at the Hangar. 9 songs down. I think it sounds great but to be honest i may not be able to listen to these tunes for a while. ...
So the end of 14 and half hours in the studio leaves us totally set up and with 3 songs complete. The difficult-lots-of-guitar-organs-etc… ones: Fire Escape, A Heart’s Ease and SLow Motion. The Pete tunes actually. Tomorrow we have 11 songs to do. Sounds daunting, is daunting and it may or may not happen. But ...
Quick post. we are on second mix of the day. Hopefully we’ll hit 5 today but its late already. We had some loss of tracks at one point which required some nifty redos by the dream team (andi, dana = incredible vocal peoples) but we’re still going strong. More later. internet not in the room.
I wonder if its a good sign that a pattern of bad humour has already set in. We haven’t even reached the Hangar yet but the by-product of many hours of repetion listening has taken its toll at an early stage. None of this should be funny but in the later hours, with only energy ...
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 ...