Your first recording

When you make your first recordings your initial urge is play them for everyone and anyone who will listen. It's natural, but very dangerous to the process of a project. Roughs are just that...rough mixes to get an idea of where you are at and what needs to be done next. I recently had a problem when I realized that one of our clients was sending out mixes and soliciting feedback on the tracks. I was forwarded a track by track review from an aquaintance of the artist. Someone who is not involved in the project and certainly should not have possession the tracks. I was not pleased. I had to call the artist down as we say in the south. The tracks were raw, missing additional parts, performances that were scheduled to be replaced and scratch vocals. Big mistake. The thrust of all this is you should hold your mixes close until the producer deems the project ready for primetime. That is the point in time when you play some of the tracks for family, close friends and more importantly, potential partners in the next step in the process. Labels, management, even musicians you may want to have in your band. Do not make copies and send them out. You cannot get them back.

Cartridge Family and Monty

Jonathan and I spent Friday evening and most of Saturday working on final mixes for the CFam tracks. Finally getting a mix of Do You Remember and fine tuning a number of Joe's songs. He sings through his nose so we had a time smoothing out the harshness in his vocal tracks. We spent a fair amount of time working on guitar tones. I'm pretty happy...we'll see what the guys think.

Managed to get a couple more roughs for Monty. We'll be back on those Tuesday.
cya

Not much yet

But I'll do better. I'm gonna use this blogspot for the studio. So you'll be reading about whatever nonsense is going on at 411.
To catch up, The Cartridge Family is nearly finished. We have a few tweaks to the mixes and then it off to the mastering house.
Monty's record is ongoing. All of the lead vocals are complete. Backgrounds need to be done. We still have some tracking to do...looking for a pedal steel player for a couple of tracks. Guitar solos and Mozelle will be addings some keyboard parts.
Will's band Harbor View, will be back as soon as we get a little breathing room. He's about to have a breakdown so I gotta get him in soon.
Reed Mullen has been hanging around lately. He and Jonathan are working on pre-production for new COC! That's all I can say about that.
The Olympic Ass-Kickin Team are way overdue...looks like we are gonna start around August 11.
I'll have some pics up soon.
jack