July 15, 2007: Still Recording

This morning, after reviewing the latest mix of Lightning, Mike suggested that we re-do the drums in the last third of the song, because he felt they were too out of sync. We debated about the need to re-do the drums, then decided to go ahead and give it a shot. The major issue of doing this is that the bulk of the original recording for this song was done in Adobe Audition on the PC (because we only have 8 tracks on the Korg D888 in the basement). We can punch in the new drum track on the Korg D888, but whether or not it will be in sync with the rest of the tracks on the PC remains to be seen. Once the drum track is recorded on the Korg D888, the next step will be to transfer it to the PC and see if everything is still in sync. We proceeded with punching in the new drum track.

Once we were done with the drums, we then focused our attention on Bob's song, Hold The Phone. He had a setting on his drum kit for a ringing phone, barking dog and a knock on the door. The plan is to use these effects in a short sequence, with a spoken vocal track on top of the effects, as an intro for the song. We came up with a decent intro and will record the vocal later, once Bob comes up with a full script. At this point, the practice was over. The next step will be to insert this intro at the front of what was recorded last week and see how it sounds.

Mike also wants to re-record his rhythm track and re-do his vocal track (at Alan's studio). We also need to finish the vocal on Rhythm Of The Radio (Favorite Position). This should complete the three songs.