tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8354122.post-1095794598462868942004-09-21T13:12:00.000-07:002004-09-21T12:23:18.463-07:00Here's a bit of what's happened so far. Last summer my partner in the venture, Nick, purchased some recording equipment for about $3000. He had messed around with recording in the past and his career interest is sound engineering, so it only made sense for him to invest a bit of money. Also, we will get plenty of use out of the equipment over the next few years. If we were to record in a commercial studio it would cost us at least a few hundred dollars, which we would shell out every time we had to get an idea onto tape. Owning our own equipment also gave us the freedom to record whenever we wanted to and take as much time as needed without a running tab. <br /> <br />Anyway, we demo'd (demoed didn't look right) some songs we had been kicking around and gave them to a drummer friend we knew. After a few practices we laid sown all of the drum tracks of the record in one afternoon. It felt great to get the process started, but there was a lot of work ahead of us. <br /> <br />Nick and I spent the remainder of the summer and most of the fall laying down guitar, bass and vocal tracks in the few spare hours we had each week between work and school. Normally it wouldn't take nearly as long (maybe 3 or 4 weeks), but we had a ton of other obligations. When we finally got everything recorded, it took another month or so to get everything mixed right. Having never done that, we realized it was an art in itself. Placing each of twenty or so tracks within a stereo image to sound appealing to the listener is quite a task and requires as much creativity as actually writing the songs. <br /> <br />Sorry for the long post. Next time I'll talk about the mastering of the record and the preparation for duplication. <br />Timothy Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08138528307880086691noreply@blogger.com