Recording an Album

Yesterday was the longest recording session so far. Embarking on the Keys and Lead guitar at the same time. No reason for this, other than both musicians we about and have no acoustic sound, both just DI into the desk. I also made the decision to record the Midi as well...just for editing flexibility.

In terms of recording the lead guitarist has set sounds for each track, but we also recorded a variety of other sounds...this will give the album a final uniqueness that the band cannot replicate live. It does mean post production will take a lot longer, but has to be worth it.

We are in the position where we have lots recorded for each track, that does not necessarily have to go on the final takes, but never the less there if it is needed.

Back to the beginning...recording yesterday took 11 hours...with only 30 mins for lunch, the rest was pretty much solid. Ears were very painful at the end of the day. Although it has to be said Chinese take away for lunch over the last two weeks has settled down very nicely for a long afternoon.

The project has now hit 20.9GB so when it became time to back up onto an external hard drive at the end of the session, it took a full 50 minutes for the data to transfer across. I was contemplating going home and coming back, but for safety reasons decided to stay. I am gradually getting more and more paranoid about things happening to the files. this week I will also embark on transferring the data into a third location just to make sure!

Tomorrow night will be time to over dubb the bum notes on the bass recording. this starts at 8pm, and should hopefully not take too long. The picture is of the lead guitarist performing his magic during a take!