Recording Progress
Last week we went to Dubrek Studios in Derby to record our debut album. Starting on the Tuesday morning we set up for Day 1 - We went straight into recording the bass and drums for the first 5 songs. All of which were recorded together and live. Although this added a bit of time it took to record, it gave a better feel and far more natural. A live guitar and vocal were played instead of using a click track, again adding to the live sound.
Day 2 - Chris and Dave completed the remaining 5 songs and we went onto some vocals. Bek added some guide sax🎷 to help when we recorded Echoed Whispers.
Day 3 - Ben (that’s me) laid down a tonne of guitars and managed to blow the valves on his amp, luckily we had spares and a cool new amp which tracked really well! We then got Bek and Alex onto the Alto and Bari sax 🎷 and they tracked all of their parts. Bek went onto Accordion 🪗 and that ended an exhausting day.
Day 4 - Bek got the Soprano sax 🎷 put on the final songs, before Alex got the Mandola & Bazouki parts all done. Last but not least we had to get all the vocals down, by this point Ben’s vocals were getting well stretched so we mixed in some backing vocals during the day. As just as quick as it started we were all done. We now await the mix downs next month!
