Well, all of the guitar tracks are done - Thank you Ian! Tomorrow Rick Slack will be in Solar Peace Productions’ studio and we’ll be laying down the bass tracks. Rick plays the stand up bass aka ‘the big thing in the corner’. I’m really looking forward to hearing what he’s put together. After the bass is down, just need the drums and I can put the final vocals down and it’ll be up to Bert to do the mixing magic. I deliberately keep my music as uncluttered as possible. I have a horror of over produced music; it can sound so bad so easily. I also have a theory; a real song is one that can be sung/played when there’s a power failure. I suppose there are those who would dispute it, but hey, it’s my theory and it works for me.
The way we record (and I have no idea if this is any different from how everyone else does it ’cause I’ve never been privy to how everyone else does it!) is that I sit in the control booth with Bert and Ian sits out in the sound booth with headphones on and we crank up the metronome and I sing along to help him keep his place. This is just a ’scratch’ vocal and will be replaced in the end with the real vocal track(s). Then Rick comes in and listens to the ’scratch vocal & Ian’s guitar track’ plus metronome and we record the bass track. Greg Wandling will do the same thing for drums. Then, once all the instruments are down, I will record the vocals. Pretty simple really, and that’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned!
I am very lucky to have such talented musicians willing to play on my CD, and Bert is very patient and meticulous, excellent traits for the job he’s doing!
I still haven’t decided what to name the CD! I think it should be the name of one of the songs, but which one? There are 11 songs: Bed of Stones, In the Rain, Frozen Heart, One Good Reason, Goodbye Old Friend, Strange World, I’m Not Finished Crying Yet, Ghawdex (pronounced aw-DESH), Fly With Angels, Breathe, and Damned If She Just Walks Away.
I think I’ve narrowed it down to Bed of Stones, Frozen Heart, Breathe, or Strange World.
Any suggestions?