Sadly, due to a number of guitar related issues, we are officially 4 hours over our recording budget with 1 track still needed vocals and a number of other touch ups needing to be done here and there. We've got the time and $$ to make this happen, but it sucks watching the cost of recording skyrocket before my eyes. But at least we all know how things will be when we go to flesh out our full length down the road. In hindsight I'm honestly going to blame a lot of this on the fact that all of us have recorded exclusively with 4 piece bands in the past and underestimated how long recording 5 people would take. Live and learn I guess.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Rock and roll diary: vokills
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
Rock and roll diary: the muscles from... Schaumburg
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Rock and roll diary more buried treasure
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Rock and roll diary buried treasure
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Rock and Roll Diary: Day 2 Sneak Peaks
Finished up the second day of recording a few hours ago and after taking time to decompress a bit, sat down to twiddling my knobs, as Hoagy would say. By which I mean I started on a rough rough rough mix of adding synth to live elements to make sure everything jives. It's sounding good so far. It'll be even better when I export everything for our producer to tweak (Dan from 88 Fingers Louie), but you can get the basic idea here.
We finished up 1 (of 2) guitars today and all the bass parts. I think we're a little behind schedule for tomorrow, so looks like we're going to be over budget shortly. 1 guitar and Hoagy's vox are set to begin tomorrow morning. Hopefully we can knock out all the recording tomorrow, but I have my doubts that we'll get any final mixing done. Who knows though, we might have some "1 take wonder" tracks for tomorrow.
This is what the guitar and drums sound like for the still as yet un-named song about vikings. As with yesterday, there is pretty much no mixing or studio magic involved in this yet- I'm just showing you all the process as it progresses.
Viking ROUGH by dethtron
Here we get on to an extremely rough edit with adding the synths in to what you heard above for the first time. I left the levels where I had them while I was still writing, so the synths and such are still at a much higher volume than the will be in the final mix- well except those chimes, those may get louder. Also upon hearing this again, I think I forgot to mute the synth bass, but it's no biggie since I didn't have time to grab a wav of the live bass for his anyway- which is a shame, because Ian blew us all away with his playing today. I promise this won't be one of those bassless metal albums you're used to.
Viking song first rough draft w synth unmixed by dethtron
We finished up 1 (of 2) guitars today and all the bass parts. I think we're a little behind schedule for tomorrow, so looks like we're going to be over budget shortly. 1 guitar and Hoagy's vox are set to begin tomorrow morning. Hopefully we can knock out all the recording tomorrow, but I have my doubts that we'll get any final mixing done. Who knows though, we might have some "1 take wonder" tracks for tomorrow.
This is what the guitar and drums sound like for the still as yet un-named song about vikings. As with yesterday, there is pretty much no mixing or studio magic involved in this yet- I'm just showing you all the process as it progresses.
Viking ROUGH by dethtron
Here we get on to an extremely rough edit with adding the synths in to what you heard above for the first time. I left the levels where I had them while I was still writing, so the synths and such are still at a much higher volume than the will be in the final mix- well except those chimes, those may get louder. Also upon hearing this again, I think I forgot to mute the synth bass, but it's no biggie since I didn't have time to grab a wav of the live bass for his anyway- which is a shame, because Ian blew us all away with his playing today. I promise this won't be one of those bassless metal albums you're used to.
Viking song first rough draft w synth unmixed by dethtron
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Rock and roll diary denim edition
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Rock and Roll Diary: Sneak Peaks
It's been a long, yet surprisingly fun day for me. I got all four of my tracks knocked out in the studio in slightly less time than I was allotted. Set up was a complete bitch, but I think it will all be worth it when everything is mixed. Our producer says I had $17,000 worth of mikes hooked up to my shit today. That kind of blew my mind. It's always depressing blowing 2+ hours of studio time on setup and level checking though.
Anyway, my hands feel like they've been run over, trampled, and then run through a wood chipper, so I'm just about done typing. Below I'm going to post 2 tracks from the day. Bear in mind these are VERY VERY VERY early mixes. Nothing has really been eq'd, had effects added to it or been particularly cleaned up. My takes have been edited together into a final rough mix and that's it. There hasn't been much studio magic yet and my kick sounds really weird since it's been eq'd (ok so some things have temporary eq on them) to cut through better so everyone can hear it. The guitar was laid down yesterday by Joe and while it is super helpful to have a scratch track, there are many parts that will probably sound off to you. Rest assured, my shit is pretty much spot on with the click track though (metronome). If you don't know how albums are recorded here is a basic order. A quick throwaway guitar, vocal, or bass track is laid down set to a metronome. The drummer then plays over that, again along with a metronome. From there the "scratch" guitar or whatever tracks are removed and the rest of the parts are layered on. we got rhythm guitar done on one track tonight, but I don't have any of that available for your perusal. If I get a chance I'll post these same two songs with more stuff mixed in tomorrow, so you can hear how things evolve.
Up first is the ep's title track: Knights of the Templar. The guitar at the end was way off, so it was cut out of the rough mix, so just imagine that it's there. Actually listening to it now, the guitar is a little off throughout, but the end was especially not good. Again I will remind you that this is a very rough mix and only barely represents how the final product will sound.
03 rise of the templars unmixed by dethtron
Last but not least here is the as yet still untitled song about Vikings that I had previously posted synth parts for. This should song more metal than the all synth mix :)
04 untitled unmixed viking shenaniga by dethtron
Anyway, my hands feel like they've been run over, trampled, and then run through a wood chipper, so I'm just about done typing. Below I'm going to post 2 tracks from the day. Bear in mind these are VERY VERY VERY early mixes. Nothing has really been eq'd, had effects added to it or been particularly cleaned up. My takes have been edited together into a final rough mix and that's it. There hasn't been much studio magic yet and my kick sounds really weird since it's been eq'd (ok so some things have temporary eq on them) to cut through better so everyone can hear it. The guitar was laid down yesterday by Joe and while it is super helpful to have a scratch track, there are many parts that will probably sound off to you. Rest assured, my shit is pretty much spot on with the click track though (metronome). If you don't know how albums are recorded here is a basic order. A quick throwaway guitar, vocal, or bass track is laid down set to a metronome. The drummer then plays over that, again along with a metronome. From there the "scratch" guitar or whatever tracks are removed and the rest of the parts are layered on. we got rhythm guitar done on one track tonight, but I don't have any of that available for your perusal. If I get a chance I'll post these same two songs with more stuff mixed in tomorrow, so you can hear how things evolve.
Up first is the ep's title track: Knights of the Templar. The guitar at the end was way off, so it was cut out of the rough mix, so just imagine that it's there. Actually listening to it now, the guitar is a little off throughout, but the end was especially not good. Again I will remind you that this is a very rough mix and only barely represents how the final product will sound.
03 rise of the templars unmixed by dethtron
Last but not least here is the as yet still untitled song about Vikings that I had previously posted synth parts for. This should song more metal than the all synth mix :)
04 untitled unmixed viking shenaniga by dethtron
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