• Ready or Not…

    Ready or Not…

    It’s time to start mixing! So Graham got us moved into studio 1 and started bringing up a mix.  I joined him after fulfilling my personal assistant duties for the day and helped to fine tune some of the balances and make treatment decisions on several tracks.  However when it came to the real “mixing”…

  • Rock n Roll tracking done.

    Rock n Roll tracking done.

    Rock n Roll mixing begins. Well hopefully it will begin soon. Below are some photos from our final tracking session at the SSR.  I performed a few more vocal fixes as well as some guitar overdubs, while Amber got busy in the vocal room prettying up one of the numbers by adding a female voice. …

  • FINALLY BACK IN THE STUDIO!

    FINALLY BACK IN THE STUDIO!

    After a nearly five-month wait, on Tuesday Joel and I were able to get back into the studio to do some of the final tracking on the EP. Joel and I can’t agree on whether this recording just won’t die or it just doesn’t want to live, but in the end that’s just talk. The…

  • backyard photo shoot

    backyard photo shoot

    Joel and I have been working on some band photos in the backyard of our place in Santa Monica. We’ve found that what our tiny studio apartment lacks in size it makes up for in the quite useful creepiness of the wildly overgrown backyard. Here’s just a few outtakes. We’ll be posting the finished pictures…

  • Progress. Oh yes.

    Progress. Oh yes.

    It was early November the last time anything tangible was accomplished on the recording Joel and I came to Los Angeles to make. Finally, this past weekend we were able to get back together with our extremely busy engineer Graham to do some digital-style organization of everything that we have done so far. This makes…

  • Moving Like Its a Hobby

    Moving Like Its a Hobby

    No, for those you that may be worried, Joel and I are not moving again, thank goodness!  Not right now anyway. But since we have moved seven times since we moved to L.A. a year and a half ago (and also moved all of our things in and out of storage two additional times, as…

  • Vocal Session 2

    Vocal Session 2

    Coming off some much needed rest we arrived at the studio on Wednesday to find we had been bumped from Studio 2 by what promises to be a very interesting collaboration between an American postmodern legend and a young female French vocalist. This left us in studio 3, which I will take any day of the…

  • Vocal Session 1

    Vocal Session 1

    I really can’t describe how excited I was when I got the call saying we could get into the studio for three straight days!!! I’d been on pins and needles for weeks as I prepared and anticipated further progress on the recording. The prospect of spending the whole weekend in the studio seemed too good…

  • THE LOVE CONTINUES TO FLOW.

    THE LOVE CONTINUES TO FLOW.

    LEAD GUITAR TRACKED THIS WEEKEND!!! From mountain spring rain and melt waters rivulets form, descending, funneling forth to find ourselves caught up in a river unrelenting, I hope that someday we will reach the ocean. -Joel Nass Our good friend Izaak M. flew from GRB to LAX this past Thursday to do his part for…