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June 8, 2008
Explone studio report
Yesterday afternoon Greg and I finished tracking drums and bass for four new Explone tunes. I posted a few photos to Flickr here.
I was a bit intimidated going in, this being my first time in a “real” studio and all, for someone else’s music, with my bass playing under such scrutiny, but I didn’t make nearly as many mistakes as I expected. We stuck my 6×10 cab inside a foamy isolation booth in the basement. Since I’ve spent years sequestered away in the Folkhole playing amp-less bass lines directly into my sad little 4-channel mixer, monitoring my bass through headphones wasn’t a problem at all. I didn’t really need to “feel” the low-end punch in the room with me. (Although you could feel it rumbling through the floor a bit, because my bass rig is a beast.). Anyway, the result is some really great-sounding bass tracks that I’m finding hard to believe I actually played.
Today Shawn and Patrick are tracking the rest of his guitars and vocals, and I’ll be going in for a few hours to add some backing vocals.
Here’s some video of Patrick cutting some guitar tracks in the control room:
And here’s Greg doing a drum check ahead of recording:
Pleased to hear its going well Scott. It’s sounding pretty good from those videos too, look forward to hearing the final product.
Brings back memories from a couple of years ago when I was recording my old bands album!
Thanks Steve, I’m looking forward to the final results, too. It might awhile, though. We’re planning on another four songs later this year, and then it’s all up to Patrick to put together his album on his own schedule.
There might be some new tunes on the MySpace page before long, but I’m predicting the new Explone record won’t be until late 2008/early 2009.