pictures pictures pictures…
As promised, here are some pictures from our the initial tracking session that took place last weekend at The Exchange Recording Complex in Milwaukee, WI-
Here we have the drum setup.
Jeffro, Joelly Dustin and Tristan came in the night before we started tracking and spent over 6 hours setting up mics, baffling, and dampeners as our friend Tim (who notably was a drum tech on Shiner’s Masterpiece “The Egg”) came out to help tune up the drums and get them sounding as close to perfect as God would allow mere mortals to experience. All in all, there were over 20 mics used in the recording of the 14 drum tracks that will appear on this album.
Excited yet?
Well you should be.
Moving on…
Here you can get a good look at the control room of the studio that we’re in. There’s Jeffro Lacksheide, our engineer/producer/father in-law, making things sound wonderful. It has something to do with sauce and sexiness… it’s technical. You can also see our good friend Lyle in there. He is our “Baby Engineer”. He does things like taking out the trash and washing the fruit.
And he also records music.
Here’s Tristan and Dustin and the things i step on. We recorded all of the guitars, bass & keys live as scratch tracks, just to ensure that the drums would retain the energy that comes with a live performance.
Plus Joelly would’ve been lonely, playing all by himself.
Anyway, that’s all i have for now. There will be more soon, including some live footage of the tracking. Thanks for sticking with us. We promise it will be worth your while. Pinky swear.
-marky/culpa