10/28/11 - MasterMix

As I type, we are working out some of Dustin's guitar overdubs. We're in MasterMix with producer Brian Jacoby. We're down to just the three of us now, since engineer John Kargol had to jet, as did label rep Paul Bolen. But we continue on into the night.

Anthony called on the way here and let us know he was pretty sick. He left it up to us whether we wanted to sit in a cramped control booth with him and eat his germs. I told him to drink some O.J. and go to bed. Hopefully he'll be able to come back this weekend for vocals, but the way he sounded on the phone, I'm not too confident.

Dustin got here, though, and knocked out his guitar parts for "Hell-Bent" woman. And like I said, as I type, we're working on "Fluffy Little Hands."

He's demonstrating to us why we call him the Sparkle Sprinkler, sprinkling sparkles where they need to be sprunk. These songs sound good as they are, but Dustin's textures and layers fill them out and give them exactly what they need. I love to see a project come together. We're in the midst of some pretty thick Beards right now, and it's going well. I can't wait until we can show this to the world. It's some pretty good stuff, if I may say.

I may.

10/16/11 - MasterMix

Today's session was another good one with Brian Jacoby.

Long story short, we decided what the definitive structure of "Modern Age" was going to be and we got drum and bass basics on it. Solid. Settled. What you hear is what we got. And what we got is good.

After that, we worked on Anthony's guitar overdubs on these songs. Again - long story short, we got a lot of what we needed. More to come next session.

Short, to the point.

10/15/11 - MasterMix

Today was our first session with producer Brian Jacoby. We tracked in MasterMix studio, located at IPR. We got there in the morning. I arrived a little bit late, but while they were waiting for me, they got the mics set up and inputs established. So that was all good. Dustin wasn't with us today. He works for a major retailer, which had a major release yesterday. It is a device whose name ends in "4S." Therefore, he had to be scheduled in order to deal with the traffic related to that. After I set up the drums and after Dillon, Paul and I got back from Foxtone, I entered the performance area to get some drum sounds.

When I entered, there was a really cool mood in the room. The lights were super dim. The performance room at MasterMix has this great blue stained glass window and there are candles on either side of it. It was really comfy and vibey. Dillon and I were both set up in the main performance room and Anthony was in one of the iso booths with his amp and vocal mic.

We had a really great session. We started with "Fluffy Little Hands." It took us a few tries, but we did finally fall into a groove. We tried a couple different tempos. We tried some stuff. And after a couple hours, we had bass and drums tracked.

Next, we worked on "Mystic Princess," which was a little more difficult than the former. Same kind of thing. We meticulously looked at tempo, mapping out different tempos for the song. We went over the ending a number of times, trying to get it right, which we eventually did. Bass and drums are tracked.

Finally, we ripped through "Hell-Bent Woman." It didn't take long. We had this one down. That is all. Bass and drums are tracked.

We called it a day and tomorrow we'll be working on "Modern Age." Will Dustin be able to be there? Will we finish all the basic tracks? Will we start overdubbing? Intriguing questions.

This entry was boring. Sorry.