So it's been 1 night and 1 day that I've been in N.C. we have a deadline to meet thats recording 10 songs in less than a week, the first nite was just setting up my gear a Digidesign 002r to my Macbook Pro 2 gigs of ram nothing crazy, I'm using Protools version 7.4 a version nope it's not compatible with my Protools on my desktop at home (Os X) .I'm not upgrading because I'm not losing my mixing goodies period!(check the Protools Plugins blog) So the first day we put in a good 16 hrs in, with an hour or so break in between there for dinner. Those 16 hrs we had 3 songs completed with Guitar and Bass and vocals! With some outside noise delays we could've gotten a lil' more done but remember my friend lives on a busy road leading to a park and across from a bus stop, not your ideal place to cut an album you plan to shop to labels but a good engineer can make farts in a bucket sound good. (instructor at CRAS used to say)
I'm also dealing with my wife making sure I know she needs me home ASAP!!! So 2 days go by and we have 3 songs pretty close to completed and 2 songs ready for bass the bassist couldn't make it that 4th night, so we went out and sold hotdogs because my friend is a artist by day and a Hot dog vender at night. We did what any ambitious BROKE musicians would do, try to make a lil cash.
So a long story short...(hehe too late for that 1 I guess) We had 6 songs done by that friday when we started recording Tuesday, granted if we had more time we would've used and did a song a day to make sure Vocals we're completely flawless but we didn't have that luxury plus we we're satisfied with the Vocals anyways.
Sunday morning comes along and I get a call from the Ol' lady who wants me home yesterday. But we still have 4 songs to complete...I got a lil' worked up stormed out the house to unwind before my buddy wakes up and I blew some steam off before breaking the news to him, that I don't have as long as I want because babysitters fell through for the week and so on...
Right there we tracked out the 4 songs in the morning I don't even think my friend brushed his teeth he woke up and we right at it! We recorded 3 songs and I'm not liking what I hear. I thought either I blew one of my cheepo computer speakers or the guitar recorded distorted with out distorting into protools...I start to think trying different things and finally I'm looking at his guitar and I see there's a place to put 9 volt battery for it's direct output. DING! We needed a new battery, so we ran to the store ....what do u know it sounded like a brand new guitar. A slight set back but nothing to let it ruin our day especially after the morning I already had with the Mrs..
We did it, recorded all the tracks we needed to get done except for one, I'll get to that next time. We started I believe around 10:30 that morning and finished Guitar and Vocals for the 4 songs ready to lay bass to, by 6pm leaving me some time to replace the click tracks with drums from my MPC 1000 (the cooler younger brother of the MPC 2000 xl I love em both the same though hehe) The bassist came in business as usual and knocked those last 3 songs out and he actually inspired us to all write a song together pretty up beat too. The bassist did it to avoid recording the fourth song called "Homeless in the Rain" a sad song my friend wrote, sad enough to make you wanna cut your wrist vertically (just an expression) lol so bam 7 songs completed in less than 7 days 1 was ready for bass and we we're writing the ninth. The 10th song was a song we worked on together 5 years ago that caught the bassists ear so we'll give it a whirl.
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