Reaching Out
There have been many “best things” about recording this new project. One of the most powerful aspects of this for me has been the new excuse to reach out to my heroes in the music world to ask about collaborating … Continue reading →
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Possible album cover and a bagpipe mic experiment
I’ve been working for days on harmonies and recording the flute and pipes with different mics and mic placements for different sounds. Here are a couple of excerpts of the band with the pipes recorded on different equipment. What do … Continue reading →
back and forth
Today was another mixing day if only for a couple of hours. Rich, our engineer, was in Austin. I was in Asheville, and Frances in Nashville. We spent at least a couple of days since last week listening and making … Continue reading →
mixing and re-mixing
Well I’ve got 10 mixes from our session in Austin and Frances and I have been poring over them to check levels, EQ, and reverb, things like that. We’re going to make a few changes and I’m still searching for … Continue reading →
Days 7-9 Whew!!!!
Well we got into kind of a crunch over a few days and ended up with a couple of 12-14 hour days in there getting things mixed. I’m so grateful to Rich for taking time away from his family to … Continue reading →
Day 6…. the fun stuff begins
Today I found out we’ve been playing most of our stuff into an $8000 microphone from the 60’s. Our vocals, my flute, some of the strings, and funny enough, the bagpipe drones are going into a tube microphone called a … Continue reading →