9am–Matt arrives at studio to finish comping drums
11am–I arrive at studio to finish scratch guitar/vox for the rest of the songs
12pm–Max arrives at studio to start getting drum sounds
1pm–Max start recording “Anna”
2pm–I leave the studio to get to my new part-time job as an SAT Prep instructor. In my absence, Max tracks drums for three more songs: “Anna”, “I Promise You Relief”, and “Sisters
6:30pm–I arrive back at the studio to catch Will’s drummer (Dave Brophy) finish setting up to track “Gracie” and “Tell My Story”. Dave is super polished and he knocked them out wonderfully and quickly and I’m glad he could come in on short notice. He came in because Max had to leave for a gig at 5:30
9:30pm–Finish drum tracking for the day. Matt is going to spend a couple of hours comping the drums (cleaning them up to make the best full take) and I bust out of there.
Notes: All in all, for me, this was a pretty short day. I was in for a few hours then I had to head over to Quincy to teach SAT Prep and I was back for a few more hours. It broke up the day and made it seem pretty short. On Thursday, I will be in from about 11-5 and then I have to head to Winchester to teach another class. I’ll be back in the studio by 9:30 for a few more hours. We have one more drum track to complete. It’s been interesting seeing Max struggle in the studio. He’s a fantastic drummer and he does great live but everything has to be so precise and consistent in the studio (without using the computer too much because it sucks the life out of the songs if you rely too much on cutting and pasting to get too much of the take)
and he’s struggled a bit finding consistency in the studio. Dave was more of a drumming machine with his metronomic ability and we breezed through the two songs. I don’t regret using Max for one second, he’s MY drummer, but we’re definitely behind schedule a bit. We’ll finish all of our drums and hopefully all (or most) of the bass on Thursday.
Friday, we’ll put down acoustic guitars and toss out the scratch tracks for a lot of the songs. I think as of Friday I’ll have a better sense of where we are with things. The drum tracks sound killer but I need to hear more than that to get the best scope of where I stand.
We will also have a keyboardist/organist come in on Saturday who will take the songs and dress them up. That should take most of the day on Saturday and then my time at Q Division is done. The album won’t be done but I think we’ll be done tracking at Q. Hopefully by then we’ll know when we’re going to be in the studio next and with what. At that point, we’ll still have some rhythm tracking to do, all the lead guitar work, all the vocals, and percussion. We’ll have the bulk of the work done but some really important stuff ahead of us
All in all, I think we’re in good shape but we still have a ways to go.
Another update coming tomorrow with PICTURES (hopefully).
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