Tag: Sex & Sound
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…