It's June, yet it feels like it's April. The weather we have currently been experiencing is frighteningly appropriate for the collective band mood. We've been displaced from our normal practice/recording space because Ben's family is moving pretty soon, and are in between different houses at the moment. Hopefully, Ben, Steve, and possibly I will find a house to rent that we can practice and record in. But things haven't been looking too optimistic. It's incredibly difficult to find a house that is in a decent location, and doesn't cost too much to rent.
Aside from these minor issues, progress has been made in recording. A week and a half ago, we visited Camden Chamberlain's studio (Kitefishing Studio), and was able to commit Frozen Stiff in the Weeds to a recording. It sounds incredibly sleek, and I'm amazed at how quickly we were able to track everything. It took us a couple hours to get the base of drums, bass, and guitar down, but once we had that, everything else only required one or two takes. It's pretty much finished at this point, but we're holding off on exhibiting anything until we have a decent body of work built up.
Aside from the song we recorded in Camden's studio, we've been recording on our own home setup now. We purchased a digital input, a microphone kit for drums, and may or may not have purchased Logic Pro. It's a fantastic setup. We're still figuring it out, but it's sounding a hundred times better than what we used for the EP. We've already pretty much finished a version of Modular, and have laid down the drum tracks for Sorry to Bother and Kolob. We're starting off with our oldest songs that we wanted to improve upon, mainly because we need to learn how to use all the new equipment before we embark on any of the newer, more substantial material. I say more substantial because hopefully our songwriting has improved over the course of the last year.
Things have been going alot slower than I would like, but I suppose that's the life of a band. I wanted to try to accomplish as much as possible during the summer, but it seems everyone has something to do on their own time. But if we can get our practice space situation figured out, things will probably move alot quicker.
Anyway, more updates will come soon, and hopefully we'll be able to post a few samples here in the future.
Spencer
