Steph Goes to Work

Last night's session was vocals with Steph. We had a small group in the studio which is always more productive, cause you don't have to yell "shut up!" constantly to 6 people directly behind you kabitzing while you're trying to hear the subtleties between microphones and preamps when picking equipment to match with different people's voices. Tom Sasso was there popping pictures and vids again, so here's what he saw:

Steph in the booth getting ready.


Here's steph doing a line from "Life is So Bright". (The audio on this is a bit quiet because you're hearing everthing from outside the glass, so turn up your speakerz). From that look she shot Tom, i don't think she was all to keen on this take. Don't worry Steph, DO IT AGAIN!


LittleHale was present to provide motivation and "Nerd Kicking" as neccessary.

We finished up with Steph's parts pretty quickly, so while we waited for Christian to show up i did a few taborine and backup vocal parts. This is were i get to run the session (for the most part) from that little remote control dealie i mentioned a few posts back. Very useful. Still, you need someone sitting behind the desk telling you that your performance sucked, so....


Steph took the controls. Good Job! You get a Food Pellet. (and an album credit).


Here I am in the box furiously shaking my tambo. We didn't have a camera fast enough to catch the action, hence the unavoidable blurriness of this shot.

After Christian showed up, we put a couple small parts of his down for "Faith Looks Up" and talked about how we wanted the vocal for that song to be structured. That song will end up quite different from the way it is played at the ORB... hopefully you'll like it. That was about all we did... the next session hopefully will be thursday morning, then the next monday again. We are getting closer though: a couple acoustic tracks, and a few lead vocal tracks to go and pretty much all of the tracking will be done. Then it's on to mixing. Ugh.

until next time...