Recording session!
Just wanted to share that I recently was involved in my first non-home-studio recording session with the church band I play in. We basically did a "live in the studio" recording of the band, with the singers to go back and do their tracks later. The band includes a drummer, bass (me), rhythm guitar, lead guitar, piano and violin. Anyway we cranked out 16 songs in 5 hours, doing 2-3 takes of each song. There were a few songs where I think we got a take where we all pretty much nailed it. There were others where the mixing guy is going to have to do a little "fix it in the mix" work.
But wow, what an adrenaline rush! Even more so than playing live for me. I've been recording myself for years, but not having the convenience to do as many takes as I needed, punch in and out, comp my tracks, etc. really added some pressure. I know the mixer will need to do this a little but still, but we were on a tight budget so for the most part it's going to be what we played is what we get.
The recording engineer went out of our mixing board into a hard disk recorder and was going then import the tracks into a DAW (not SONAR
but he did have many good things to say about SONAR and said he had just finished helping set up a SONAR studio) for mixing.
Anyway, this was a first for me so just wanted to share... I'll post the songs when they're available, but I don't think the singers are doing their tracks until April so they have time to practice with the rough mix of our instrumental tracks so it will probably be sometime in May.
Dave
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post edited by dlogan - 2009/03/04 14:22:18