Day 1

Whoah...what a day. 5 intense hours of recording. We did the bed tracks (bass, rhythm guitar, drums) for 3 of our 7 songs today. Each song took well over an hour, followed by a short break, then next tune. Tomorrow we're heading back in for the remaining 4.

To explain the experience...we all had headphones with click tracks and mixes of each other's instruments in them. There were three lines run off of each of our amplifiers (one DI, one mic, one other thing that I don't really get. Probably some other kind of DI box), and the amps were put in different rooms so the drum mics didn't pick them up. I'm pretty happy with the way things sounded, despite the fact that I couldn't hear my bass at all through the headphones. Luckily, I'm amazing so I can play based on just hearing a click track. My camera crapped out really early, so this is the only picture that I was able to snag:



Brutal, I know. But Craig's got better ones that we'll show off later.

1 tip for recording: Make sure you send someone for a coffee run every now and then. Otherwise bass players fall asleep on the floor.