Recording: Round 1

Well hello nobody!

This weekend marked the proverbial cherry popping of Numbers Don't Lie's new disc - Miss September.

Friday: Got to GB about 10:30PM (much later than anticipated). Went to Mike's to get my gear. It was still set up from recording him, so I had to tear it down and pack it up, load it into the car, etc. Got to Chris's about 11:30 PM or so to Joe bitching about it being so late. Oh well. Then we headed over to East Town Pub, where it was basically a class reunion for me, only it was the douche bags that I didn't like then, and turns out, still probably don't care for today.

Saturday: Got some breakfast, then made it to Chris's for 9:30am. Fun begins. Basically we spent the morning getting the gear unpacked, instruments set up and mic'd and got basic levels for the drums. Lunch Time! El Serrape for lunch. It was delicious and I didn't get food poisoning, which I feel great about. After lunch, went back and began the process. To make this a bit short, we finished at about 11PM and thought we had gotten really good drum takes. Burned off rough mixes and sent the troops home to listen and give thoughts. I got back to Mike's at about 12:30am or so and stayed up until 2 watching awesome 80's Metal Mania on VH1. Lesson: Don't fuck with Dio or get a job apparently. ROCK AND ROLL CHILDREN!! At this time, Daylight Savings set in and it was 3. I was so tired, I fell asleep setting the alarm on my phone. Luckily my internal clock woke me up earlier than the alarm time I was trying to set and I found my phone underneath my body...which then was promptly set for a later time and I went back to sleep.

Sunday: Got to Chris's at about 10:20 or so. Joe and Chris were already listening to the disc and we found a couple things we needed to change. Derek showed up at 11, thinking it was 10. nice work. Started recording again at about 11:30. Fixed the drum pieces we needed to. I then went and got a hair trimming, came back and started retracking all the bass. We finished all but three songs with bass and drums. Backed up all the songs and off I went home.

Verdict: I feel good about this. The drums sound great and huge. I got some new drum mics (the Audix DP4 drum pack). They sound awesome, realistic tone and a great abililty to capture the resonance of the drums without it mudding up. The bass tone is good to, regardless of Joe's thoughts. We ran out of the Ampeg SVT-Pro 3 head direct and that's the end of that.

Sweet

Hopefully I'll have a rough mix I can post up here for you all to hear...NDL - Miss September, already leaking on the internet.