Minneapolis, Minnesota
2/7/10
Since we got so much more done yesterday than we expected, we were almost at a loss for what to do today. I had left my drums set up over night, just in case we needed to re-record anything after sleeping on it. But alas, we did not. So the day started with Travis striking the drum mics and me striking my drum kit, while Nick listened back to yesterday's tracks to get a feel for what bass tracks needed to be redone. Striking, of course, means taking down and putting away, rather than physically hitting them with hands or sticks. Listening back means hearing with ears and paying attention to the sounds. Just wanted to clear that up for you.
Nick overdubbed some bass parts while I took photos and video of him and the engineers. It only ended up taking about an hour and half to finish up the bass tracking, leaving us still ahead of schedule. So Joe sent Travis out to pick up some lunch for all of us from the SoHo Cafe (he is an intern, after all) and we regrouped. After some amazing pizza and gyros, along with funny and inappropriate stories, it was decided that Anthony and Nick would track "Lullaby," since it had not been recorded at all yesterday. There is no drum set on the song, so there was no need. Today, however, Anthony's guitar and Nick's bass were laid down, meaning that all of the songs have now had some tracking done and finished. As I understand it, both drums and bass are done recording.
We finished all of this stuff up fairly early in the day. After some discussion and deliberation, it was decided that Joe would take the rest of the day to do the essential editing on the drums and bass that is necessary to continue with further tracking. This way, he doesn't have to cut a day off of the end of our schedule to perform these tasks. So we will convene once again next week to track guitars, vocals, percussion and everything else from Monday through Wednesday. Then Joe will mix after that and we'll be done, minus mastering and printing.
It seemed to be a pretty brief day, but we got stuff accomplished. And I was home in time to watch the Super Bowl with my wife. We have a week off from the studio now, but we go back in on Monday the 15th.
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