Studio Trip 6: The Recording Workshop

And so it has  passed. We are very excited to say that all the piano for the record is tracked! This is big thing.
Sunday morning we headed out from The Bongo Tree around 8 to The Recording Workshop in Chillicothe. This, as I am sure you know by now, is where we tracked all the piano. You might ask, why go all the way to Chillicothe to track some dumb piano? Well, let me answer that with a picture. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I am already bored of typing.

My baby for the day.

So now that we've cleared that up....Upon arrival, we walked into the studio and I just stood there taking it all in. Brian (Muth), the studio engineer made a comment to the effect of "well, aren't you going to play it? It is what you're here for". It was the perfect introduction to Brian who has a very dry, sarcastic sense of  humor. I loved it. I played around for awhile, during which Brian set up all the mic's and Joe and him uploaded all our sessions to the computer in the control room.

Control room, looking into the tracking room.

Tracking went pretty well. I don't think I could have been more prepared. There is only so much you can practice for a session like we did. The analogy I used (gosh, I love analogies) was that of a baseball player going to the batting cages and hitting every single ball on a line. It helps you lock in mechanics etc, but in a game setting, its a whole other story.
We tracked seven songs for the record and then a b-side single that we are going to release on the side.
It went by real quick. We were wrapped and heading out of there by 3:30. I feel very good about the parts and how I played them. I think they are really going to set this record off.

In front of the sign. Luke really wanted this picture.

We are going to try and finish all the tracking in February. This is exciting. Cleary.