Honeybone and Life: The Weekend #2

Greetings!
Sorry I went back on my word and promised ya'll another blog last week but time kinda got away from me and, well, I ran out of it. Doncha hate that.

So this is the chronicle of Honeybone's first exploration of the back studios at Albany. We set up all the gear and mics on the Friday Night (1st of April, same night as the Checks gig) and got everything sounding pretty good. We even got a signal from the bass drum mic (very exciting to us novices).

Drew was pretty stoked

So after we got all the gear sorted for Saturday we unplugged everything and locked up the four rooms and headed off to Sammy's for the gig (see the previous post to find out about the gig). Josh didn't come cause he had some hot poker date. Too cool for us plebs.

So Saturday morning arrived we got up bright and earlyish (10.30am) to begin recording. We had to make a few changes to the set up, as Drew wanted to record straight to his hard drive and we needed headphones for Peter and I so we could hear stuff as we were in separate rooms from the gat boys (they stood in the hallway with their amps in another room). We plugged everything in and did a wee check of the sound, and found a mysterious clicking noise on the bottom snare mic.

We couldn't figure out where it was coming from, as the mic, lead and input were all fine. Then the clicking changed to another track, this time Josh's guitar track. We couldn't figure out how to get rid of it, so we just left it there, as we couldn't waste too much time because we only the studios booked for Saturday. Plus they're only demos, when it comes to recording the actual album I'm sure we'll be more professional...

So we got all the instrument tracks done that we wanted to, and Drew got three vocal tracks done. We wanted to get all the recording done in one day, but Drew 's voice got a little bashed throughout the day as he was singing a scratch track for each song so we all knew where we were.

So instead of giving you a verbal run down of recording each song, I'm going to post some pictures instead. They're worth like, 1000 words apparantly.