Day 2: Drum Tracks
Today was a fairly successful day really! We knocked off.. about 10 drum tracks I think?
The pressure was on a little as Tyler is off to Dunedin tommorrow for a few days - so wanted to get the drums done before he left. And we did, so that's awesome. The cleaners kicked us out around 6pm though.
Our first goal was to find a firewire card - to allow us to actually record. Thankfully, we stumbled across Ms Dupres while contemplating bowling down Mr Rowlands' door to get to the computer with it in. So we sweet-talked Ms Dupres into sweet talking Glenys to open his office so we could get the computer with the card in. And it worked! So plugged in the card and we were in like Flin. I just hope he understands and noone gets in trouble for it..
After a bit of mucking around with Cubase (we had never used the mixer before to record multitrack as it is just brand new) we worked out how to enable tracks for recording, and did some testing - wow - beautiful quality sound! (Apart from the actual mics being used, the venue, and the kit) It is interesting though because the drumkit definantly sounds better in the graphics room than it did in the music room. So that was another advantage for moving everything.
And that was it really, we recorded the tracks, I think 4 takes was the most for any one song. Unfortunately we didn't get time to record any Clowndog covers, but still might these sessions. Really want to cover some of their songs - and just for those songs call ourselves "Towndog", and send them into the podcast Spanky (clowndog's singer) runs "The Sound".
Until next time, rock on!
The pressure was on a little as Tyler is off to Dunedin tommorrow for a few days - so wanted to get the drums done before he left. And we did, so that's awesome. The cleaners kicked us out around 6pm though.
Our first goal was to find a firewire card - to allow us to actually record. Thankfully, we stumbled across Ms Dupres while contemplating bowling down Mr Rowlands' door to get to the computer with it in. So we sweet-talked Ms Dupres into sweet talking Glenys to open his office so we could get the computer with the card in. And it worked! So plugged in the card and we were in like Flin. I just hope he understands and noone gets in trouble for it..
After a bit of mucking around with Cubase (we had never used the mixer before to record multitrack as it is just brand new) we worked out how to enable tracks for recording, and did some testing - wow - beautiful quality sound! (Apart from the actual mics being used, the venue, and the kit) It is interesting though because the drumkit definantly sounds better in the graphics room than it did in the music room. So that was another advantage for moving everything.
And that was it really, we recorded the tracks, I think 4 takes was the most for any one song. Unfortunately we didn't get time to record any Clowndog covers, but still might these sessions. Really want to cover some of their songs - and just for those songs call ourselves "Towndog", and send them into the podcast Spanky (clowndog's singer) runs "The Sound".
Until next time, rock on!
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