Another great day in the studio. We kicked off the day, nailing "Red Light" in one take. Figuring out what beat per minute to start at was the key and after a few bars, the click track was turned off. I think we actually recorded it a tad faster than anticipated and it totally rocks.
After that we recorded the slow and powerful, "Lonely Me." It was one of the first songs that we wrote as a group, almost a year ago now. I'm anxious to begin overdubbing on that one.
We also recorded a rough version of Ben's ambient song "Chosen"....We think this might be the song that closes out the album. We envision it to be very atmospheric and look forward to layering over it with lots of strings and guitar bowing.
After several hours of recording, the band was just not clicking on all cylinders, while trying to record "Warlord." Come to find out, everyone was starving...so we hit up D'Angelos and came back with extra energy. On the first take after our break, we think we nailed it. "Warlord" is another song that we wrote together as a band...this one took several months and several lyrical rewrites to get down. It's one of our favorite tracks to play live because there's so much energy and power behind it. We'll have to relisten to the last take to make sure it's the one, but we all felt pretty good about it.
So this weekend we recorded 6 songs and we had only planned to record 3! The main purpose of the sessions was to get the bass and drums down. Ben and I now have lots of work to do adding our parts; then there is mixing, which I am super meticulous about. Tomorrow, I'm headed back into the studio to work on the final mixdown of "15 Songs on the Radio" with producer Zac Cataldo...we're looking forward to releasing the song this week!
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