Tough Birds (aens new band) studio diary
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:42 pm
"Hey, aen, don't you start one of these pretty much annually?"
Yeah, but this one is going to get finished, come hell or highwater. Plus a certain Indiana Robert is moving to mah town so I can count on someone to work with.
Anyway, I put in about 5 hours today, the first tw or so being total wasted crap, which figures because I haven't recorded in ages, and i was actually feeling some fear before starting this new thing. It's going to be a full band, doing my songs. songs with words, even. Anyway, Started on "Don't Bury Me" today. I wrote the song's first draft at least 3 years ago, it was sort of a jokey country thing, but now it's... uh, it's a Tough Birds song.
First board, I ended up using ECthunder, POG and the delay
Second board, and audio interface. Both of these just held loops, one of which I accidentally deleted out of the session, but they're just textural things with no timing or cues or anything, so itll be easy to drop back in.
REJECTED! This just arrived today, it wasnt cooperating for this track in particular. I'll hang onto it until the whoel band is together, and see if we find a good permanent spot for it before I flip it.
MIMJAZZMASTOR. Also didn't get on spectacularily with this guitar today, but it ended up doing its job, I guess.
Twin Reefer. Reverb, I mean. Of course, great for the cleans, but I had to hit the dirty stuff with a low pass filter, because the twin's tone stack lets through this awful super high staticy stuff that sucks. I never noticed it live or in practice before.
The classic "mic right on the cloth" method yeilded shitbox results. Moving it back 4 or 5 inches made a world of difference.
Vox through the trusty old "Big CAD"
I managed to get a fair portion of the guitar work done, and probably keeper vocals, too. I also did some disgustingly rudimentary drums via my (bareley functional) midi keyboard and Reason, mostly just to keep time for the drummer, when he arrives.
If I had a (goddamn) video camera, I would have shot a video like my old pal Doog, but i DONT so I DIDN"T.
Yeah, but this one is going to get finished, come hell or highwater. Plus a certain Indiana Robert is moving to mah town so I can count on someone to work with.
Anyway, I put in about 5 hours today, the first tw or so being total wasted crap, which figures because I haven't recorded in ages, and i was actually feeling some fear before starting this new thing. It's going to be a full band, doing my songs. songs with words, even. Anyway, Started on "Don't Bury Me" today. I wrote the song's first draft at least 3 years ago, it was sort of a jokey country thing, but now it's... uh, it's a Tough Birds song.
First board, I ended up using ECthunder, POG and the delay
Second board, and audio interface. Both of these just held loops, one of which I accidentally deleted out of the session, but they're just textural things with no timing or cues or anything, so itll be easy to drop back in.
REJECTED! This just arrived today, it wasnt cooperating for this track in particular. I'll hang onto it until the whoel band is together, and see if we find a good permanent spot for it before I flip it.
MIMJAZZMASTOR. Also didn't get on spectacularily with this guitar today, but it ended up doing its job, I guess.
Twin Reefer. Reverb, I mean. Of course, great for the cleans, but I had to hit the dirty stuff with a low pass filter, because the twin's tone stack lets through this awful super high staticy stuff that sucks. I never noticed it live or in practice before.
The classic "mic right on the cloth" method yeilded shitbox results. Moving it back 4 or 5 inches made a world of difference.
Vox through the trusty old "Big CAD"
I managed to get a fair portion of the guitar work done, and probably keeper vocals, too. I also did some disgustingly rudimentary drums via my (bareley functional) midi keyboard and Reason, mostly just to keep time for the drummer, when he arrives.
If I had a (goddamn) video camera, I would have shot a video like my old pal Doog, but i DONT so I DIDN"T.
