I’m getting myself in gear for the Recording Studio again. We’ll be tracking guitars today and maybe if there’s time I might throw some vocals down. I had planned on shooting for Guitars and Violin in this session but Jesus (the violin player) called me a few days ago saying that he wasn’t going to be able to make it. Actually, he was calling from the hospital and was just a few hours away from having his appendix removed! I told him we could wheel his hospital bed into the studio and stick the violin under his chin. I think the IV dripping sound might make for some nice ambiance for the CD HA!!

I touched base with him yesterday and was pleased that the operation went well so eventually when he heals, there will be strings. As for today… it’s guitars, guitars and probably more guitars.

Oh, I just realized that some of you might be confused as to why each track is put down separately. Most people are under the impression that the whole band goes in and records at the same time. That’s one way to do it but there’s quite a bit more that goes into it. What I do is:

1. Establish the Click with the metronome and get the drums down 1st (we’ll usually play along with the drums while this is going to help get a better feel for it but those tracks usually aren’t the “keepers”). Mainly, we focus on making sure the drums are solid and on the click- So basically while getting the part down in the songs we hear this nice little annoying CLICK, CLICK, CLICK going throughout the tracks.

2. Once the drums are down and solid, we’ll layer the other tracks one at a time to make sure everything is spot-on. Vocals are usually one of the last things to go on along with little whistles and bells.

It’s a fun process actually but time consuming.

Oh…here’s a link to some Stills from the last studio session with Drums, Bass and Piano. I’ll be sending this link out in this month’s mailer but I figured I’d post it on the blog 1st. Some of the pictures are snoozers but some are fun. These were snapped from HD video clips. Yeah, I’m having the studio sessions taped in HD for video use down the road so you’ll probably see some of these later as part of a video for one of the tunes

Ok… Off to work