Wednesday, February 13....alone in the studio with my thoughts and recording gear...setup a condensor about 6 feet away from my Mesa Boogie, 6 feet in the air.  Close mic'd with an sm-57, each mic going to discreet tracks, panned opposite.  GIANT sound.  Freakin' huge.

Spent the evening recording 2 separate keeper takes to 4 tracks, panned opposite mic/take...it sounds gigantic.  Finished my rhythmn tracks for "Monday", need to do the same for "Carnivorous"....next up is Tray to finish his tracks for "Monday", and maybe this weekend I can get my solo's done.  Then it's all about vocals and mix-down.

I REALLY want to have these songs available for y'all before the concert on the 15th.

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Tuesday, February 12...me, Tom, Justin, Tray....Tom laid down thunderous bass tracks for both of the new songs...I love this part...this is when you can start hearing the song take shape.

We mic'd Tom's rig with an AKG D112 through a vacuum tube mic-preamp...as always, i tracked without any eq or compression, but add them in the mix.

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Thursday, February 8th...me, Tray, and Stokes...Kickass....Stokes laid down some seriously kick-ass drum tracks...we started out with a click track, got some good takes down, then, for the helluvit we recorded freeform....the feeling was way better, and when we compared his meter to the click-track recordings, it was almost DEAD ON.

Tray laid down rythmn tracks for "Carnivorous" afterward, but it got too late to work on "Monday"  We used an SM-57 close-mic on his Marshall, and a small diaphragm condensor back in the room for ambient, going through a tube mic-preamp. Sounds FAT (with a capital PH)

Can't wait to record the guitar parts...but bass is next.

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Tuesday, February 6th, began tracking drums...me, Tray, Tom, and Stokes in the studio....with me running the recorder, and Tom and Tray recording reference tracks in the headphones for Stokes.

Everyone had a rough day before getting to the studio, I'd hoped it would translate into emotional music, but it just translated into a rough night....back to the drawing board on Thursday....

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