Two Tracks at Jupiter Studios

Apr 12, 2010 News
Written by: John

This past weekend we recorded Broken and Norman at Jupiter Studios with engineer Doug Storm in Studio A and it was by far the best studio experience we’ve ever had. It has been a long time since we’d been in the studio, and it was also our first time with Nick and we were slightly worried that it wouldn’t run very smoothly, but needless to say, since we are writing a post about it, the session went great.

On day one we recorded the drums and guitars. It took a little longer than planned with extra guitar parts and fine-tuning the drums, but when the day was done we had a good foundation to work with to fill in the rest of the holes.

As a primarily live band we normally don’t play to a click-track but Adam was able to easily find the timing and play his intricate beats to the annoying tick sound. The truly impressive part was how he easily incorporated some of his odd time signature fills into the click.

Playing live as a three-piece rock band, some of the songs true potential is never given a chance to truly shine. Not to say that the songs are incomplete live, the power and aggression is there, but when it comes to studio magic we thought it would be best to show everything. A good example of this is in the guitar tracks. There are multiple tracks for each song, but for the most part you would never know. On the other hand, in Norman we had the chance to show off our second guitar. Yes, this is a teaser, you are just going to have to wait until the tracks have been mixed, mastered and released, hopefully by early May.

With day one complete, day two we were able to finish up the guitars and also completed the bass and vocals. The base went surprisingly quick and vocals went better than expected.

After listening to the playback of the first day, Nick decided that some new bass lines needed to be created. Not taking much time at all, Nick was able to knock out some great new bass lines. If you just cant wait for the release of the tracks, you’ll get to hear them at our next show.(link)

The vocals took a bit of time, but eventually turned out well. With the lyrics finally recorded, it looks like I’m going to have to memorize them and now screw them up at live performances.

Doug Storm at Jupiter Studios worked really well with us. He put up with his fair share of fart jokes and all around immature humor and I’m sure he’s happy to have his life back. He is planning on mixing the tracks in the next week or so, then taking a little time away from the songs before mastering them. We highly recommend him to any rock band that is looking to record. Doug is professional but not stiff, he made it comfortable to work with him and he really does know what he is doing. And we deffenetly do plan on recording with him again in the future.

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