what’s up everybody?
today i am tired. it’s tuesday and i’m almost halfway through a week-long recording session with my friend Jake Gerard. we’re tracking songs for his new record (or project, maybe i should call it). we’ve spent the last three days holed up in the studio tracking beds for seven brand new songs and three old ones.
on saturday and sunday my good friend seth partridge came in to lay down drum tracks on the songs. seth and i have been friends for years, but more recently in a professional sense as he’s now a session player, and i always need a good drummer.
the drum tracking went fantastic, considering the time contraints. we got seth’s kit sounding awesome and he layed down some heavy parts. he came in after only hearing the songs for about a week beforehand, but he was prepared and his parts sounds amazing. i’m going to post a picture of one of his charts because it is ridiculous.
after some long days on the weekend we slept in a bit yesterday before heading back into the studio to start on guitars. after sleeping much of the weekend, jake finally got to work on some acoustic. (even as i write this, jake is still sleeping in) true to his moniker (‘one-take jake’), jake destroyed acoustic in a matter of hours.
since we had hit our stride with acoustic we decided to move on to tracking jake’s electric parts as well. it was a late start (around 11:30p.m.) but after a quick outing to pick up a friend’s amp (see pictures) and getting locked out of the studio in the process (thanks gare!) we really got rolling. the amp i just mentioned is my friend kevin’s ac30. we worked into a nice warm overdrive tone that fit well into a lot of the songs. jake’s gretsch was singing and i couldn’t record the good takes fast enough.
we ended up messing around with electric guitars and tweaking tone until late into the night. we ended up leaving the studio at around 6:00a.m. and decided to get some sleep. on the way home we met a biker (glen) whose tire had warped and gave him a ride; an interesting end to the day for sure.
today we sleep in, laaateee. tonight, jake and i are heading to hamilton for a radio interview. the station is slipping my mind right now, but i’ll probably post again quick once i know.
tomorrow jake’s friend paul is coming in to lay down lead guitar parts. there’s a dual rectifier in the gear room at the studio that i haven’t been able to really fire up yet. it’s been staring me in the face every time i go in there. tomorrow it’s going to scream.
i’m going to post some pictures that i’ve been taking over the past few days, and i’m sure there will be a few more posts to come this week.
also! whenever there are little breaks in tracking i’ve been tweeting, so you can follow progress a little more closely from there. there should be updates on the sidebar to the right, but you can also find me at twitter.com/stevelensink
alright. i should go wake jake up.
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charts of a madman.
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go jays.
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seth brings the laughs
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working out parts.
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snooze.
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one take.
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ms.
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the king.