Tonight I have Band Rehearsal from 8pm to 11pm.  Depending on how tonight goes, I’ll most likely book some studio time and record some of this stuff. Perhaps 3 songs at a time….maybe 4. Many people record in different ways…

What I like to do is layer stuff rather than record the full track live. We all still play the song live but the main thing is the drums…once the drum tracks are down then we build from there. Some things I can do at home once I have the drum files. That’s pretty much the bone of the song…the rest of the meat gets added after.

Some people think the band just goes into the recording studio and performs the song over and over until you get the perfect take. I guess some of that style of recording still goes on but I don’t think it’s as much these days. I figure, whatever gets the job done is best…but taking tracks home and tweaking them sure saves on recording costs.

About 5 years ago, record companies where signing artists and fronting them 250K/500k to get a CD recorded but with home studio programs like Pro-Tools, a person can record that same quality of album for almost nothing (by comparison).

I like to quote Ben Folds in his song "Rockin’ the Suburbs"

"Some producer with computers, fixes all my shitty tracks" 

Now with things like Auto-Tuners, a person hardly has to know how to sing these days. Makes you wonder how anything was ever recorded before the 1990’s …"you mean people actually had to know how to play and sing?" UNHEARD OF LOL

Auto-Tuner you ask? Well…it lets you go into each note and graphically tune it to make sure it’s in key. Sometimes you can just turn up that effect and then you end up with a vocal sound like the song "Believe" by Cher…I think Kid Rock had a song with that same vocal effect a few years back too. In the song "Believe"…what happens is, the note is slightly out of tune and the tuner sucks the note back into key. The result is what you hear on the line "do you believe in life after love" of the Cher tune. I think her her case, it was an intentional thing

I know the above is techie info but I figured I’d just let people know how that was done. There is a such thing as TOO MUCH in tune with a tuner though. You have to be careful how you use it, otherwise you sound unnatural and robotic. [End of Techie info that i'm not sure anyone really cares about] ;) 

Happy Friday!

Oh…my American Idol picks were dead on but it wasn’t too hard to guess. The next few weeks will get tougher to guess who’s getting the boot, but I’ll work on my Nostradamus skills as the show continues