The whole band got together at the barn today to listen through the rough mixes of all the songs. basically this is a last chance to make any minor changes to the songs and see if we need to track anything else in these last few days before shane heads back to nashville. i’m really excited about this record being released. sorry you guys have to wait till fall. i guess we’ve always been into creating anticipation.
I'm Late…
This is pitiful. You’d think it would be easy to write a blog a day but… oh well. I apologize.
Drums are finished. Amazing. To be precise, drums, guitars, bass, some acoustic guitar and violins, and a good bit of programming is finished, and we’re only halfway into week two. This is scary. My calendar says I’m recording until mid April (the question then being – recording what?). Maybe we could record a reality show in the fiji’s. That would be nice.
Anyway, i’m on to digging for samples for Hogan to manipulate with the the old turntables. As soon as violin is done he can join me. Until then, keep watching me move ever so slightly from time to time on the webcam. Its outrageous!!!!
More Drums
I bought a rogers holiday (i think its a holiday but i’m no expert) 20×14 bass drum a few years ago. its pretty, and i love the sound of old rogers. we had a rogers kit in a jazz program i was involved with in college and i really liked them. anyway, i’ve been searching for toms to finish it out for a few years no and to no luck. i’m kinda picky. anyway. i borrowed a rogers kit from dan hamilton as well as the snare i told about and i’m using the toms with my kick in the really dry room downstairs. we’re also running the kick through a bass cab in the room to fatten up the low end a little. sounds really good.
we did a track today that needed a really big fat beat throughout. no need for toms, just a fat beat. so we took the toms away and brought out the 14×8 (big!) snare that matches the 24×16 (also big!) kick drum that were provided by kieth at risen drums. they are sounding huge. i can’t wait for all to hear. also i used a set of hats that we’re given to me by my neighbor growing up. she’s kinda the reason i started playing in the first place. these hats are pretty trashed. they are not hand hammered. more like hammered by kids for the last 30 years. and they are thin to begin with. she gave me an entire kit that is a japanese student model from the late 60’s. the original heads are still intact. you could not get their sound anywhere else. go listen to “beautiful collision” if you want a reference. i’ll have pictures for them tommorow maybe.
