Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Production notes #1

The Silent Screen is working on a new album. I plan to post notes from the process here in the coming weeks. We have some basic tracks for three songs completed. We're taking the week off for Easter and will resume recording next week.

Right now all of the equipment is set up at Chappy's house. We are tracking our basic tracks live with my amp in his converted dark room, Scot playing his bass direct from his pre-amp to the board, and the drums miked in the main room. After we have the five songs we're planning to start with for the demo done this way, we'll move the stuff to my studio to do overdubs.

This process should take about two or three more weeks, and then hopefully we'll have our demo. After that we'll see what other songs we'll do for an album based on live performances and other as-of-yet undetermined factors.

When we resume recording I'll try to keep a more detailed journal of the proceedings, and get some pictures of the process, and maybe even try to get Scot and Chappy involved in writing about the process here.

In the meantime, Happy Easter! And check out all of our other cool stuff.

Tom

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