I live next door to these two funny kids from Colorado: Kyle and Trent. They wanted to get some studio time, so one night I managed to get 4 hours of studio time and my friend Max and I went in and recorded some basics. Max took this as an opportunity to show me how he likes to mic drums, and I think the results are pretty nice.
Sudden Bursts of White - 9.85MB
Once we had solid drum tracks, we spent the next few weeks recording guitar and bass parts here in my apartment with my DI, as well as the synth parts and background vocals. There’s a part towards the end of the tune where we each took turns reciting poetry by Blake or (in my case) repeating this sentence over and over. When I was finally able to find more studio time, Max and I went back into the studio to record the lead vocals with the singer, Bob. We used Berklee’s pearlman through Max’s V72 with just a little bit of compression.
Finally, on Thursday morning at 3am, Max and I went back into the studio to reamp the guitar parts through my friend Richard’s amplifier, and then had everything mixed by 6am. For future reference, 3 to 6 in the morning is not the best time to mix, still…there’s no doubt we brought out the rock.
Posted by Scott Mcdowell at April 23, 2005 05:15 PMi definitely heard 'mythical beast' in that mp3, what was that about? was that intentional? i bet it must have been, i mean, it obviously holds a lot of emotional weight in the song.
Posted by: lindsay at May 2, 2005 09:50 PMLindsay: How could I possibly know? I've never even taken a song writing course! ;)
PS: I just used a smiley.
Posted by: scott at May 3, 2005 05:55 AM