Recording journal, entry #1
We are done. With one drum track. Well that's not entirely true, we have some or one drum recording we did in Colorado a year (2 years?) ago. We were staying in a mansion in the mountains and ended up really liking the way the living room sounded for drums. So of course we set up a bunch of mics and even had a little control room downstairs by the shuffleboard table.
But tonight marks the first drum track done at the studio we have been building and remodeling for the past 6 months. Needless to say, we are all pretty happy to be out of the constuction phase and thinking about things besides nails and screws and soldering wires. Like drums. And not inhaling, as one of the non-Margot studio partners put it, "the dust of retreat."
The main drum room is oddly shaped and it doesn't have a true center. We also put in a strange sort of adjustomatic floating ceiling that we can move around, so it has taken a couple days to figure out where to put the drums and the room mics so it sounds cool. I think we found a good spot, finally. At least good for the song we started with, currently titled 'A Tangle of Blonde.' It's a song that we actually played a couple times during our last tour, in a stripped-down arrangement. There were some really interesting developments with the addition of a drum kit, i think.
we also tracked some guitar and vocals alongside the drums and a couple of happy accidents took place during the take that i am quite fond of. But i won't spoil it and talk about them.
Stuff that you just can't think of, you know, that's the best kind of stuff. This could be related to our pre-session prayer to the god (gods?) of rock.

luv, goodnight... andy

p.s. you can check out photos from recording on our flickr page
we will be updating the photos and this journal as much as possible.

Labels: recording, studio

# posted by Margot & The Nuclear So & So's @ 3:48 AM