studio work

[ateolf]

worked overtime thursday...nothing to say about that...but last night was pretty awesome...a ray of light on an otherwise cloudy week...The Family Ghost had practice and we tried our hand at the recording again...this time with everyone there as well as a few lessons learned from saturday's attempt...so we recorded "Placeholder" and it sounds fucking awesome...the drums took up a whopping 8 tracks...the bass was pretty standard, recorded in the hallway (the drums the only instrument actually played/recorded in the "practice room" area)...the keyboard amp was set up in the bathroom right behind (well, to the side of, not behind like between the wall) the toilet...i set up a mic in the bathtub, pointed directly at the toilet...a fun little play with the mic...Jacques's guitar amp was put in the room formerly known as "Tim"...at least we're taking advantage of the situation...it has the most amazing reverb...and there were 2 mics used for the guitar...one right by the amp and another several feet away, closer to the middle of the room, and on top of a small table...we played through the song and it was fucking wonderful...there was one problem that turned out to be a mist-opportunity! Jacques's fuzz pedal's a little messed up and sometimes when you step on it to make the fuzz happen it'll be really muted and you kinda have to step on it again...well this happened in the big distortion buildup at the end of the song...so it was really muted...but no problem, we're multitracking so we can overdub!!! i decided to put the overdubs on separate tracks and not just erase what was already recorded, to avoid any chance of messing up the transition as well as giving a bit more flexibility...after we did the take Jacques said "i think i hit the distortion too late" and he did hit it later than he did when we initially recorded...(we started from the "midpoint" of the song...the [long] end, starting from where it gets quiet going through the whole buildup...) anyway this turned out super cool 'cuz it's building up and it's all clean then there's a bit more dimension to the buildup 'cuz instead of just going all out with the fuzz the main guitar stays clean then there's this backgroud muted fuzz underneath creating a really cool texture for a few measures before the total ballstomp assault happens...yeah, so at the end there's 4 tracks for the guitar...cool huh? sorry if i've blathered about that, i'm just quite proud of what we accomplished last night...recording's so dern cool...everyting left and we tried to add the vocals to the mix, and we did a take, but that one's not a keeper...Jacques was nervous or something and wasn't feeling too up to it and we'll also need to figure out a way to get the vocals sounding good without being too quiet...(if you know Jacques then you probably know what a feat this will be...hehehe...) okay...anyway i worked a little overtime tonight...just finished reading Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman...i guess that's all...hopefully we can get some more recording done before whatever is going to happen happens...and hopefully whatever that is that happens brings about another situation where we have a fucking place to practice and record!!! goddamnit...

Comments

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

uh...yes...VERY badly...

[jfenderman.livejournal.com]

i can only fork over about 300 a month cause Target doesn't pay me well enough. but i need to move out of my parents house. so holla atcha boy-oy-oy!

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

is that for just rent or total?

[jfenderman.livejournal.com]

that's probably gonna be total. i probably won't be able to move out of here because my parents won't let me leave the house. i make about 500 a month so if absolutely neccessary i might be able to do 400. i don't have anything in savings. sorry.

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

yeah...$300 just for rent wouldn't really be close either anyway...oh well...