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The Night Gremlins and the Live/Work Loft
A little over a week ago, Joel and I moved into an apartment where we hoped we would finally be able to make as much noise as we wanted, and thus turn up guitar amplifiers, play the drums, hold band rehearsal, and all such things necessary to having a rock band. When we signed the…
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More Late Nights: Recording Rhythm Guitar
This past weekend Joel went into the studio solo, with Graham engineering, of course, to record the rhythm guitar for Sex & Sound. After hours of grappling with the amplifiers the first day to get the right sounds, things sailed along smoothly. Joel says he can’t play guitar. But for some reason he also says…
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BASS ASSIST
Boom! Following weeks of rehearsal and invaluable efforts during our drum tracking session Matt P. finally gets into studio 1 to lay down some bass! And after many hours of raging fuzz, with 4 tracks complete, Mr. Matt lets me try out his sweet rig to lay down a plunky little line for the EP’s…
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Recording Begins on the EP: Drum Tracking
One month ago, Joel and I found ourselves contemplating that an entire year had passed since we moved to Los Angeles, and that after one hell of a year, we were very nearly back where we had started: neither of us had jobs, we didn’t know where we would be living in the coming weeks,…
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ABOUT this blog
This blog is about what happened to Joel and I after we decided to move to Los Angeles and make a recording. Here you will find how it all got started… In May of 2008, Joel and I left our hometown of Green Bay, Wisconsin for Los Angeles. Our destination didn’t hold job prospects or…