day 3. bass guitar. it is lunch time and we now have four bass tracks complete and “we win!” is up next. we have dialed in tone and are ready to hit the red button after consuming food. this is moving at a brisk pace. mike d’s new amp sounds fabulous and he has done his homework and come prepared. well done. solley popped by for a little this morning as did hogan. bwack got rolling a little later today. needed some well deserved rest after tracking steadily for 7 songs. did i mention that he is a beast? 7 songs in 2 days!!! crazy. it seems being out on the road for two years in between records has done some amount of good. i’ve got to get some more scratch tracks ready to keep up. there are 4 songs that i haven’t set up yet. so i must go eat my chef boyardee and get crackin’.
2:11 pm: day 3. bass guitar. it is lunch time and we now have four bass tracks complete and “we win!” is up next. we have dialed in tone and are ready to hit the red button after consuming food. this is moving at a brisk pace. mike d’s new amp sounds fabulous and he has done his homework and come prepared. well done. solley popped by for a little this morning as did hogan. bwack got rolling a little later today. needed some well deserved rest after tracking steadily for 7 songs. did i mention that he is a beast? 7 songs in 2 days!!! crazy. it seems being out on the road for two years in between records has done some amount of good. i’ve got to get some more scratch tracks ready to keep up. there are 4 songs that i haven’t set up yet. so i must go eat my chef boyardee and get crackin’. 3:21 am: this is the door to the barn. i thought you should see it. we walk in right there. (i’m currently pointing at my computer screen to the door on the right). today was long. but some really cool stuff came of it. one thing that was pleasant was this - the computer that i ordered yesterday arrived this morning. crazy. overnighted from nyc. and then there is the pleasantness of four bass tracks finished for a grand total of 6. we will pause on the bass guitar and begin again with bwack in the morning. he will be tracking in the blue room. we don’t have a camera in there. sorry. we will have to move the one from upstairs so you can see. we have tracked drums once in there already. oh, actually, you’ve been in the blue room before, it is where the bass amp is, as pictured below. it is an isolated room right off of the main control room. you can sort of see part of the window in the upper left section of the control room webcam frame. the room is completely dry. dead dead dead. we’re using it to get really tight drum tones. for the song “wholy yours,” that we tracked yesterday, we used two different kits simultaneously. one in the big room and one in the blue room. they are panned left and right with dotted quarter delays. the beats are played in a way to give lots of space and allow for the two parts to act as one. fills are started on one set, taken up by the second, and finished by the first. quite complicated but the end result is very pleasing and required considerable precision to allow for the proper interactions between each pass. i digress…i was simply trying to tell you that the song we’re starting with tomorrow, “foreverandever etc…” calls for really tight drums. when shane heard the scratch track immediately he had sounds in mind. tight tight tight to allow plenty of space for the loop which was made from casio sounds and this ancient roland drum machine that i have. actually one of the first “drum machines”. it’s kick is very 808ish and the snares are simply white noise that is gated. beautiful. the loop is quite interesting and action packed with lots of 16ths, a few spots with 32nds even, so we need room, we need room, we need room. shane had it all scoped out and a small part of the solution is the blue room. it is amazing how versatile this space is. you walk through those doors (again i am pointing at the screen of my computer, tapping at it slightly) and the options seem limitless. i’m glad you’ve come with us…
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