For Your Ears Only: "I'll Wait" b/w "Don't Rush" Day II

Our plan for yesterday was to start working around 10am and work all day until we had solid drum takes, then move on to the bass guitar and finish that up. We spent the most time on the drum sound. Dave and Adam jumped in right away talking about gear and mic placement that was well beyond all of us. We referenced a few recordings/videos that we all felt would be a good starting point for these tunes. We ended up using some drum mic'ing techniques that were new to all of us (including the engineers) and came out with something that was close to what we had in mind, and also sounds very unique. We were happy about that. All in all, we used 9 mics on "I'll Wait" and 10 on "Don't Rush". That's a lot more than we typically do, but the time and effort and extra stuff definitely seems to have paid off. I'm afraid I don't have many great pictures of our drum set-up because not only did we close mic EVERYTHING, we built a small fort around Burke with blankets and foam baffles that made photo taking kind of difficult. I think Bryant may have gotten some video and additional photos that wil probably surface before too long. Once we got two drum takes we were happy with, we moved on to the bass guitar. One thing that Bryant did that we've never really tried before was running his bass through two completely different and separate amp set-ups simultaneously. Dave and Adam also mic'd them separately. So, we effectively had two different bass sounds going at once that were totally in sync. It sounds great, and Bryant knocked both of those songs out in just a few takes. The only problem we ran into (which set us back about an hour...) was that Burke and I had miscounted a part (or two...) during the drum take. Keep in mind, we didn't discover this until we had already destroyed Burke's fort, and taken down all 10 mics and put up five or six more for this bass rig. LUCKILY, it was a very easy edit to make, so after some deliberation, cussing, and blushing Dave was able to fix it and save the day. No harm, no foul. Today we're recording guitars and vocals. More about that tomorrow. k, luv u, bye.

Here's Adam, fooling with me and hopping around between dimensions while I'm trying to take his photo. So annoying...

Here's what breakfast looked like. Weird. Breakfast was weird.

"I'll Wait" b/w "Don't Rush" Executive Producer, Werner

Tim, catching the fade during drum set-up.

Here's Adam with a microphone we borrowed from a friend, who got it from a pedophile. Ask us about that in private...

Burke didn't know I was taking this picture. Here he is getting in the zone.

This is what recording looks like while you're not the one who is doing recording.

Or, it can also look like this...

It was Mexican food for lunch. Have you ever noticed the mondo B-A-B-E-S on Univision? We did!

Dave and Adam in a daze after realizing what they've gotten themselves into...

Public House Recording Studio

I had a short break yesterday, so I went record shopping/free arcade game and pinball playing at Logan Hardware for about an hour. If you're ever in Chicago, DO NOT MISS this national treasure.