In The Studio
 

We started our new recording project Saturday last (two days ago, October 29th). I only have a couple of pictures so far, taken with cell phones. I should be getting some more in a few days, and I'll put them up when I do.

We laid down basic scratch tracks for nine of the seventeen songs we intend to record, and since this is the only website I frequent I intend to keep a running record.

Charles the singer/songwriter and Steve the bass player.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ff/V__3684.jpg

Chris the drummer (and Charles' oldest son).

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ff/V__A282.jpg

Kelly the engineer and that old fart.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ff/V__AD69.jpg

Kelly with the miked-up drum kit.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../WP_000443.jpg

And two more of Chris.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../WP_000444.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../WP_000445.jpg

Cannot wait to hear.

Nice in-studio pics.

What is a "milked-up" drum kit? Never heard that term before. :06:

M I K E D - as in microphone, I think. :D

Looking good, wonder how it sounds - time for requests: anything by Pink Floyd - preferably Run Like Hell. :rock:

Thanks. :DL I either gotta get glasses or a bigger monitor. :dead:

New album?
good luck!:salute:

Exactly. These days instead of "mike" the favored spelling is "mic", but "Miced up" just wouldn't work no matter how I tried.

Sorry, all originals, all ours. You can get a tiny taste from the link in my sig, or by typing in 'Monkey Rum', 'Monkey Rum 2011' or 'Monkey Rum Acoustic' on YouTube. Our style varies so much I like to call it 'Folk-Rock-Country-Metal-Blues', but this one is going to be on the heavier side.

Looking foward to hearing this Steve.:up:

Bring it on mate :rock:

Can't see a problem with miced-up drums myself.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8269/mousedrums.jpg

Best of luck with the recording:up:

:rotfl2: Gotta love it! :rock:

To all those who can't wait, sorry but we're at the very very beginning of a very long process. Right now we're recording the songs just to get the drum tracks perfect, as they're the hardest to go back and fix if anything's wrong (as in impossible - it has to be done all over again). Then there's redoing the guitar tracks, then the vocals, then the mixing, then the final stereo mixing, then organizing the tracks in the order we want, then having pressed onto CDs, plus artwork. All this and currently we can only do it on Saturdays.

But I have some more pictures. :D

Engineer prep work.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../WP_000448.jpg

Soundboards.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../WP_000452.jpg

Processing stuff. Kelly has a computer with 24 GigaBytes of RAM. Imagine playing Silent Hunter with that!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../WP_000453.jpg

Isolation booth for vocals.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../WP_000454.jpg

A couple more of Chris. Here you can see all the mics, at least one for each drum and cymbal, plus two inside the kick drum.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../WP_000451.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../WP_000450.jpg

What's odd is that there are no pictures of Clay the lead guitarist yet. I didn't take any pictures, but everybody else did.

Good luck with the recording, Steve! :salute:
Any chance for a release on vinyl?

micced up?
Yes, somehow the words have changed around the turn of the century, at least in the Germish we use here. Maybe it is a conspiracy by all the audio guys who go by the name Michael. They were just fed up being the subject of jokes: give me the Mike, the Mike's broken, testing the Mike, etc.
But spelling it gives me mic-ups. :DL


I prefer milfed-up drums. :D

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1736/j15js.jpg

Subscribed :rock:

Good idea. Don't know if it'll happen, but there's always a chance.

That's a good one, and looks right. I'll try to remember it. Thanks!

So do I. Hotcha! On the other hand, it's pretty sad when somebody's milf is to young for me. :dead: