I've ended up traveling for much of May, which I guess I knew about coming onto this but kind of put to the back of my mind. So, I haven't had as much time to record as I'd hoped, between a week away, a week back rebuilding calluses and overdoing it while relearning material, then …
Continue reading On to my favorite Strat, and another song done
I suppose that title sounds like some commentary on workflow and working your way backwards through a song or something, but really all I'm saying is I've started lead guitar tracks, and (in part because I planned on using the same sunburst Strat I used for all my rhythm tracks, and in part because this …
...at least, with the caveat that it's always possible I'll go back and re-record a part or two here and there, and there are a couple songs with "rhythm-like" parts where there's a riff leading into the solo or in one case breaking up the solo a few times, but I plan on recording that …
Continue reading Studio Update: Rhythm Guitar Tracking is Finished
I suppose this is a slight misnomer, as I need to set up my PRS and when I do I'll probably add one or two humbucker clean tracks using that. So, really, what I'm saying is all the clean and gritty rhythm guitar parts that I planned on playing on a Strat are done. I …
Continue reading Studio Update: Clean Rhythm Guitars are (mostly) Done
So, updates like these are probably slow reading at baseline, when you're trying to juggle recording an album on top of a job and a family and get a couple hours to work nights during the week and maybe again as much during the weekend. And then you get sick... Ironically, the genesis of this …
Continue reading Bass Update: Headspace and Head Colds (and when a home studio can be an asset)
I've talked abut this a little in prior posts, but while I'm taking a day off to let my finger heal a little (there's evidently a rough fret edge somewhere on my bass, so my pointer finger looks like it's been sandpapered - I've taken a file to the treble side of the fret ends …
Real quick update from the studio - I'm trying to get in an hour or two after work and bedtime most nights when I don't otherwise have plans, so while I'm now one week into recording, the reality is more like four or five hours. Still, I'm chipping away. I won't win any accolades for …
Continue reading Quick Check-in at the midpoint on bass tracking
Saying I'm two days of tracking in is a misnomer; I squeezed in an hour after work on Friday, was away for the weekend, and got in an hour after a late dinner on Sunday after I got home. But, I have two songs (of 8 full-band songs, unless something changes along the way) with …
I told myself, after I finished Zero Mantra, that I wasn't going to let myself take another ten years to finish an album. And yet, here we are, in 2025. The good news is, ten years later, after spending the last few months digging through my folder of song ideas and seeing what I could …
I can't tell you the number of times I've heard someone tell me you need to record as close to 0db as you can to "use up all the bits." Much has been written about proper recording levels in the digital domain, and from a purely theoretical/best practices standpoint there really isn't much more I …
Continue reading Tracking Volume: Why you don’t need to record all that hot (a case study)
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