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Pawn Takes Pawn

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Sunday, July 04, 2004

Black Dahlias bass tracks 

Adam and I went to visit Chris Woodhouse, who is engineering and producing our album, to lay down some bass tracks. The drums and guitar were tracked at the Pet-n-Puppy center a few months ago and the vocals soon followed. We showed up at the Loft and found out that it had just been painted ( a nice battleship grey too!) so there was to be no foot traffic up there for 10 hours. That's ok, I went and had some lunch and cleaned up a bit. 8 o'clock rolls around and its time to go back to the loft.

I get there and Chris is ready to roll. Adam arrives a few minutes later. We hauled up his rig and put it where Chris wanted it. Chris was set up in the back room and had his 8 track all ready to roll. A simple sm57 got a nice sound. He can just dial it all in within minutes.

The thing I like about Chris is that he doesn't just roll the tape, but he helps us with our arrangements and fills too. It was a lot to take in for Adam, but he got through it without too many problems. 12 songs in 3 hours. Not bad!

I brought my minidisc recorded with me and asked Chris to feed me whatever was going on through the board, so I could have "outtake" or "live" tracks. (and after listening to it, it'd make a cool "commentary" piece. Maybe I'll get Chris, Adam and maybe matt too to sit in and record commentary over it just like in a DVD, but this is all audio.) Plus I haven't heard these song since we recorded them, so this way I don't have to bug Chris for a rough mix.

I really think that we should redo a few of these songs, you can really tell that I got tired by the second reel. We are going to record a few more songs in the future anyways so we might as well. Hope they are into that.

I'm up at my moms right now, Kandis is off to Baja Mexico for her field ecology class so I'm all alone for two whole weeks. Shucks, sure will miss her.
posted by jeff  # 2:04 PM (1) comments

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