the Felix Culpa

We’re on our first day up in Milwaukee at The Exchange setting up to begin tracking our new album… and you know what? We couldn’t be happier! This album has been a long time in the making - it’s gone through a lot of reconstructive surgery; re-writing and un-writing; deletions and additions. We’re proud of it and hope that you will be, too.

DAY 1:
Today was the day to come in and get all of the drums set up. We had our friend Tim come in and do some tech work with Joelly so that everything on his kit was tip-top for the recording process. He’s from a band called SleepComesDown - you should check them out. Tim = a good man with a damn good ear for drums.

We got the live room arranged how we want it, including the placement of the drums, and decided to do part of tomorrow morning’s work by getting mic placement and cables tied in. All-in-all, I think we’re using 20 mics on the drums… and we’re stoked. More mics means more sounds to play with when it comes time to mix everything!

Not much else happened today; it was the uneventful setup day. We played some silly acoustic songs, invented new ways to butcher the English language, ate ice cream and talked about the arrangement of the album and what we want to do for sounds and added production on certain songs. We’re attempting to go as all out on these songs as is allowable by the framework and soul creating them. ie- we don’t want to push it to being too over-produced, but we also want to see the fruit of our imaginations and hearts; we want to give this album everything we think it deserves. Big words, we know, but we’ll do our best.

We’re with jeffro. We’re in good hands.
okay… it’s 3:30am. Time for bed.

OH! and we’ll have videos posted as the days progress. =]

xoxo,
- Tristan | the Culpa -