recording :)

As I have mentioned, I am the lead "singer" in a christian metal band called Behold! The City (myspace.com/beholdthecity)

What you may not know is that we are currently in the studio recording our very first e.p.!

Its been really sweet as this has been my first very involved recording process on an album that will be fully printed with everything that comes with an album. Were recording in barrie with a solid recording engineer/producer named Kent Sheehey.

We're very excited.

And I bring this up because maybe you didnt know how songs were recorded.
Well I'll tell you :)

First thing your band will need to know is your tempos.
This is because when you sit down to record, youll be playing to a click track or metronome, and you are gonna need to know how fast its gotta click to keep you on time.

Then you record whats called scratch or bed tracks. Basically your guitarist will sit down and play all the most important parts of your songs, not worry about tone or tune so much. This is so your drummer will be able to follow along in the song, and figure out which point of the song is being played.

After drums, its really all guitars and bass. What we did, since one song is in a different key than the others, we recorded all guitar and bass for four tracks, then went back and did the one in drop C.

We wrapped up today with recording our keys and synth and any other weirdo effects and stuff that we're gonna throw into the songs to make them sound very full.

Tomorrow were gonna do a tad more refining on the guitar side of things, and then its alll vocals.
I'm gonna be screaming and singing my lungs out for a few hours...

Better drink some tea tonight.

BYE