Today was pretty relaxed. We managed to bang out five more songs worth of drums in between all the photocopier abuse. Plenty of time was made to eat as much of the catered food as possible and to toss pool balls all around the building. We were "on" today. We were able to get what we needed in far fewer takes, with the exception of maybe Sideways ( Read more... )

Jamie! I knew it! Everyone convened at 11am to start recording basic tracks. Really we're only trying to get good drum takes, the rest will be overdubbed later. But we're all good sports and play on every take. We started with Hallelujah Girl then Silly Song, Dream Breathe Scream, and Blockbuster Blue. Halfway through working on The Way I Feel, ( Read more... )

Today was our first real day in the studio, sort of. Kevin and Joe went in at 10am and spent the day preparing the drums for recording. They did all the miking and tuning, head replacement and such. I assume that Bill (who is operating Pro Tools for us), the assistant whose name I shamefully haven't yet learned, and Ben were there all day as well. ( Read more... )

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Tonight was the last nice in our cozy Transcon rehearsal room. It almost seemed like more of a formality. We ran through a few of our numbers, but I couldn't say we really "worked" on anything. Mike and I did manage to score some of that catered food we've heard so much about and look forward to doing so again and again. Cesar Vargas was in ( Read more... )

Rehearsed from noonish to fourish today. I was about an hour late due to all the sleeping. Feeling much better, but my voice is useless. When I arrived everyone was working on an updated rendition of Helly. We spent the most time on that, but didn't really get it to where we would have liked to. Mike and I don't really think the song fits with the ( Read more... )

Arrived around noon with Mike and Donovan on too little sleep and feeling quite a bit worse than the previous night - particularly my throat. Refreshing to have everything set up so we could just get right down to it. When Joe arrived Donovan and Kevin spent a few minutes discussing the new contracts while Mike and I lounged. Justin was ever so ( Read more... )

Started tonight at on of the rehearsal rooms at Transcon. It looks as though now we'll be recording there instead of the Planet as they have catered meals. Justin was our assistant and he took care of set up around 7pm until Joe got there. Shawn (Sean?) also came intending to prepare some phat drum loops in advance of tracking. We tried it on So ( Read more... )

Remembered earplugs! Mike and I arrived at Spotlight at 8pm and I was pleased to see that Tanner was already there setting up. Yeah, it's his job, but he's gone out of his way to make things a little easier for us. So "mad props" to TKO. Kevin arrived very shortly after and Joe was there by eight-thirtyish. Donovan was nowhere to be found so we ( Read more... )

Tonite we started at 8pm at Spotlight. Tanner came to set up the PA for us and ended up staying the whole night because we had to put it all away, we we're hoping to just leave it set-up, but i think we we're asking too much. When Joe arrived sometime after 10 we basically ran through songs that we're considering for the record. Not too much actual ( Read more... )