Yesterday afternoon Greg and I finished tracking drums and bass for four new Explone tunes. I posted a few photos to Flickr here.
I was a bit intimidated going in, this being my first time in a "real" studio and all, for someone else's music, with my bass playing under such scrutiny, but I didn't make nearly as many mistakes as I expected. We stuck my 6x10 cab inside a foamy isolation booth in the basement. Since I've spent years sequestered away in the Folkhole playing amp-less bass lines directly into my sad little 4-channel mixer, monitoring my bass through headphones wasn't a problem at all. I didn't really need to "feel" the low-end punch in the room with me. (Although you could feel it rumbling through the floor a bit, because my bass rig is a beast.). Anyway, the result is some really great-sounding bass tracks that I'm finding hard to believe I actually played.
Today Shawn and Patrick are tracking the rest of his guitars and vocals, and I'll be going in for a few hours to add some backing vocals.
Here's some video of Patrick cutting some guitar tracks in the control room:
And here's Greg doing a drum check ahead of recording: