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Vocals: Session 1

We’ve been busy this new year! Here is a quick peek at some of the fun we’ve been having during our vocal sessions….

Electric Guitar: Day 3 Clean

So last saturday was awesome— Bean laid down the clean electric tracks on 3 songs and at one point his guitar was literally weeping… Also Michael came and hung out with us and even played the piano for us.

Anyways tomorrow we’re finishing up electric! (sorry this video was a little late guys!)

Electric Guitar: Night 2 Distortion

Last night was a slow night… At least we finished up the distortion on Truth! This saturday we’ll be working on the clean electric tracks.

Rest!

So last night we switched it up a bit and tracked the live version of the song ‘Rest’ for the album (which turned out really well). We also startled Kim (see video)… And we even tracked bass and acoustic for ‘Crying out to You’. We we’re busy…

Happy Thanksgiving!

Electric Guitar: Night 1 Distortion

Tonight we tracked electric guitar for four songs with Bean! We had a great time, and it was a lot of fun.

Check out the video… More to come!

Piano: Night 2

Michael finished piano tonight! We finished up the last couple of songs and had a blast too.

Check out the video to see how we mic’d the piano and also some of the fun we had… 

Piano: Night 1

Tonight we started tracking piano with Michael… We got a few songs done, so at the next session we should finish piano up completely. (also it was a very slow night… as evidenced by the video)

We tracked acoustic guitar with JD tonight!

We finished up all the songs we needed to and had a great time while we were at it… The album is coming along really nicely. Enjoy the video!

Bass!

Kim just finished recording bass!

We tracked in two different sessions, the first at the Bible Church, the second at Michael and JD’s place.

I have to admit recording bass guitar for the album is by far the easiest instrument, all I have do is plugin two 1/4” cables. I mean we can make as much noise as we want during tracking- we can laugh, talk about the song, joke around, etc. Which is exactly what happened!

Drums: Day 2

Todays the second day tracking drums! Ever wonder what goes on during recording? Enjoy…

*We finished drums for all the songs on the next album in one day!