MAY UPDATE ya ya ya ya !
Ello Friends,
So, Ed and I have been working tirelessly trying to complete vocals for this puppy (the puppy being the album). We've seriuosly blazzed through most of it - last night we finished "It's Hard" and tonight we'll be finishing "What Love Is".
It's been really crazy lately - A part of me was really nervous before we started vocs. I honestly was putting it off as long as I could. Now that most of it's done and things sound rad, I don't know what I was afraid of. Silly me, tricks are for kids, and clown and Mr Kite.
So ya, progress: Once vocals are finished (two more songs - "What Love Is" & "That Striped Dress") we need to track a hand-full of instrumental parts that we either forgot or aren't happy with - This should take us to about two weeks from now. At that time (since we love doing things ourselves and we don't have a huge budget) we'll be mixing the album at our studio. When I say we, I mean "WE". All four of us will be mixing - tossing around different opinions, trying to make it sound as good as possible. The whole mixing process should only take a weekend plus one day or two. (why didn't I just say 4 days?)
So, once a band mixes an album where does it go? Answer: It goes to get mastered. What is "mastering"? Answer: Mastering is when you take a CD and bring it up to the volume and EQ standards of every other album out there. Right now our record sounds AWESOME but it's really quiet compared to most of the stuff in your CD collection.
We still need to get designs confirmed but the liner notes are all written and things are really really really taking shape and sounding grrreat!!
This weekend we'll be taking it easy - Dan's putting on "Funday Sunday" in Uxbridge this Sunday from 3pm - 12am. We'll be there rockin' out!! If you want to come, check out Dan's promo page... http://www.myspace.com/manshavepromo
Until next time - peace out friends,
- andrew
b i g s t e r e o
So, Ed and I have been working tirelessly trying to complete vocals for this puppy (the puppy being the album). We've seriuosly blazzed through most of it - last night we finished "It's Hard" and tonight we'll be finishing "What Love Is".
It's been really crazy lately - A part of me was really nervous before we started vocs. I honestly was putting it off as long as I could. Now that most of it's done and things sound rad, I don't know what I was afraid of. Silly me, tricks are for kids, and clown and Mr Kite.
So ya, progress: Once vocals are finished (two more songs - "What Love Is" & "That Striped Dress") we need to track a hand-full of instrumental parts that we either forgot or aren't happy with - This should take us to about two weeks from now. At that time (since we love doing things ourselves and we don't have a huge budget) we'll be mixing the album at our studio. When I say we, I mean "WE". All four of us will be mixing - tossing around different opinions, trying to make it sound as good as possible. The whole mixing process should only take a weekend plus one day or two. (why didn't I just say 4 days?)
So, once a band mixes an album where does it go? Answer: It goes to get mastered. What is "mastering"? Answer: Mastering is when you take a CD and bring it up to the volume and EQ standards of every other album out there. Right now our record sounds AWESOME but it's really quiet compared to most of the stuff in your CD collection.
We still need to get designs confirmed but the liner notes are all written and things are really really really taking shape and sounding grrreat!!
This weekend we'll be taking it easy - Dan's putting on "Funday Sunday" in Uxbridge this Sunday from 3pm - 12am. We'll be there rockin' out!! If you want to come, check out Dan's promo page... http://www.myspace.com/manshavepromo
Until next time - peace out friends,
- andrew
b i g s t e r e o
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