Studio Time

I am dead tired. Tonight we had our first recording day. We spent about 12 in the studio working on our first ever E.P. We're hoping to get five songs done but by the looks of it we may have to settle for four songs. As of right now we have Seahorse and the Monkey, Evil Shenanigans, and Sentence Fragment IS a Sentence Fragment practically done.

Right now Cain, Brandon and I are just recording the structure and back bones of the songs then Bailey and Ursula are coming in to lay down their tracks. We're also hoping to create a short interlude based off of Seahorse and The Monkey. It's going to be mainly piano and cello. We'll see if we have time to pull something like that off.

Our friend, and Radio One Chicago DJ, Jeremy McLean has been kind enough to record and engineer the sessions. We are currently recording at Carterco Studios. Lou from Penthouse Sweets was kind enough to lend us his amp, I think we'd be lost with out it!

We've mainly been using three amps while recording. There is a Fender Bassman, a Vox AC30 Custom Classic, and a Marshal 1959 combo amp re-issue. Any time we've had to do a lot of clean guitars I've been using the Vox and a Fender Roc Pro 1ooo together. With the more distorted stuff on the album I've been using the Marshall and the Fender Bassman with a Boss blues driver. The sound is a little boomier than I was hoping for, but it is pretty fat and fills up a lot of space on the songs. It's a pretty big wall of sound that we've been producing with the combination of amps we have.

As for Cain, he's been using his Fender bass and his standard bass rig. We have him direct in and also mic'd, from what I'm aware of. I could be wrong.

As for Brandon, he is also using his standard set however he just recently purchased a new Ludwig black magic snare. From what I remember it's a 13" x 7" which is fairly interesting. It's adding a new dimension to our sound.

Ursula is going direct in and Kevin is using a combination of the Fender Bassman and the Marshall.

I'm dead tired so I'll post more details tomorrow.

Hex