Recorded!!! Now Mixing…
Patrick fiddling with mics
It’s been quiet here for the last couple of weeks. It’s all because we’ve been very busy putting together our first recording. Here’s what’s been happening…
We started on Sunday the 10th, when we rented the studio space at Mike Lust’s Phantom Manor on Chicago’s north west side, near where we all live. Mike helped us set up, and we took it from there, using a mix our our equipment and his to track guitar, bass and drums into Logic on a Mac. The session went all day, and just as we were wrapping things up, we discovered a technical error that rendered all our overhead drum mics mute. THAT sucked. Time to start again. Mike let us keep our stuff set up, and we went at it again starting early the next morning. Although we were getting pretty tired, we got through all seven tracks again, and frankly, I think we performed them better due to all the extra practice.
Douglas at Phantom Manor
We took the tracks back to our home to do all the vocals and miscellaneous overdubs, and we’ve been chipping away at it over the last several days. Patrick is a professional sound engineer, and I’ve been doing mastering for about 10 years, so between the two of us we have enough audio nerd power to do a reasonable job. We’re about 95% done, and things are coming out great. So far, we’ve done six 97-shiki tunes, plus a cover of Malaysian punk legends Carburetor Dung’s “Oppression”. That one is for our upcoming Malaysian release.
Our plan is to release 4 or 5 songs as a split label (staticstation) / Hewhocorrupts 7″ vinyl + digital download before we leave for our upcoming tour. We feel pretty good we’ll hit that mark, but likely we’ll be doing a record release event sometime after we get back, in late November.
As always, check back here for news of the release and other info.