Studio Diary 3 

Current mood: sleepy

Another productive day. Got up around 8am, got to the studio around 9 or 10, and was doing drum editing until around 3 or 4pm, and then hit up some grub with Allen. Philly Cheesesteak…i must say that this is the first cheesesteak that i’ve had in Pennsylvania, so I wonder if it represented what a real cheesesteak is like, since I’m in the same state as Philadelphia. Who knows? I have yet to try a true authentic philly cheesesteak, or do i? Regardless, whatever i ate today was good. Anyway, today i was reminded of the importance of stepping away from something and then coming back to it later. Yesterday, I felt that the drum tracks that I had recorded were super tight, and that editing would be kept to a minimum. Ha! I came back to it this morning, and found a number of timing issues, even in our best takes. They were slight, but they bothered me enough to want to go in and nudge some beats here and there. I may have gotten carried away, because I did spend a lot of time on editing today, but I want the drums are the foundation, and I want them to be as tight as possible. So I finished doing those, and now I can officially say, not only do the drums rock, but they’re TIGHT, YO! After drum editing, we moved on to bass. Borrowed a friend’s Fender P-bass for the tracks, because the Stingray won’t cut it. Allen and I each layed down some scratch bass parts, to sort of get a good feel for the songs and parts. Allen and I spent some time getting just the right lines for the West Coast track, and at 7pm, I started work on arranging parts for the as of yet untitled track while Allen gave lessons until 10. Came up with some cool stuff today, i’ll have to go back to it tomorrow and see if I was really just kidding myself. haha. Well that’s it for now. Tomorrow we track guitars. woohoo! But in the meantime… ZzzZzZzZzZzZ..ZzZzZzzZZz…ZzzZzZzzzZz..