I spend this past Sunday in Long Island City hanging with my band. I’ve got some really cool things happening and needed to lay down some tracks for two of our tunes.
Spin Recording Studios in Astoria is where I recorded my last CD ‘Dirty Work’ and I knew that I wanted to work there again. The owner is always accommodating and the people that work there are super friendly and helpful.
After setting up (which took shy of 2 hours) we started running sounds. The band recorded in the live room, while I put down some scratch vocals behind the glass. Once we got the levels set we hit the record button. We took an old fashion approach to recording these songs. In most sessions now-a-days the tracks go down in increments; drums first, then layer on bass, then guitar, then vox. We did it as a band in real-time, then laid down a few harmonies and lead vocals. We even got a few of us in the vocal booth to lay down ‘gang vocals’ – love those! After giving everything one last listen, pressed save and called it a day.
I’m very excited for you to hear the end result after mixing and some studio magic, but even raw the tunes were giving me goose bumps and making me giggle. These songs have such a great vibe to them. Really rockin’!
I haven’t been in the studio like that for a while and by the end of the session my face was hurting from all of my ear to ear grins I was sporting through out the day. As the day was winding to a close, I realized the pound of assorted cookies that I had brought into the session was now down to two lonely cookies. Hope to have some tunes to post in the near future but till then, enjoy the pictures and stay tuned for more things to come!
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