Day 3:
i arrived at the studio to find a snoozing Cam waiting in his car for me. not so "Sleepless" after all eh?
we entered Epik, said our hellos to Steve, and started carting in the ridiculous number of amps i had in the van to be used for guitar tones.
once we were done sweating (pretty much just me cause its a known fact that i sweat way too much.), we sat down and started working on the bass tone. at the studio, there are processors that mimic different guitar and bass amps. there is an ampeg one for bass that sounds pretty spot on and decent, so instead of carting an 8x10 bass cab to the studio, we simply used this. we set up a sexy clean tone, worked with a delay pedal (for ominous spacious deliciousness), and a bass big muff (for exxxxtra dirrrty), and started on the tracks. Cam finished up three tracks, i think, then we headed to subway for lunch break. while in subway, it seemed Steve gave the employees a slightly hard time while ordering, asking for more tomato sauce on it while on the final stages of concoction, etc. i thought it was funny.
upon our return we watched an episode of the mighty boosh and finished off our subway. this was my first boosh experience and i must say, as random and "out there" as it is, its pretty jokes. very monty python-ish.
after lunch, Cam finished up the rest of the tunes and we played em through and gave a listen to.
starting on guitar, we messed around with a few combinations of amps and cabs, and they all sounded pretty unique. some of the older gear i had borrowed from my buddy Bryan from Starship Experience didn't sound quite as strong as what we were looking for, so we started with my own set-up. we figured we'd run through all the tunes that needed the tone of my gear, then switch up and add different parts with different amps. i was able to get through three songs, and we called er a day.
today was a twelve hour day in the studio. ten to ten. needless to say, we're pooped, but ready for tomorrow.
Day 4:
ten o'clock rolled around so we got back at er. i went through the rest of the tunes through my amp, using my gibson sg and epiphone genesis as the frontal/lead guitars, and Steve's gibson sg and the studio's gibson les paul custom as backing guitars.
after getting through the tunes, Steve adding a sweet ebow part at the end of one, and myself adding an acoustic track backing an outro, we realized that no other tones were needed. we captured what i was looking for, and it sounds too good to screw with already. we figured we'd leave it at that.
all there is to do now is vocals, overdubs (if needed), and group vocals with some buddies who are gonna come out and sing along. this record is starting to sound like what we expected, plus a bunch more. Steve is doing and awesome job, we're ok. if you are/know a band who wants to record at a sick studio with an awesome engineer, hit him up here: Stephen Kerr
teaser video to come. let excitement take over, if you dare.
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