Saturday, January 15, 2005

Hollister Fracus at Sound Arts Studio



Today we started recording vocals at Sound Arts Studios in Houston with Brian Baker. (Click on the title for a link). He really hooked us up with great sound, killer engineering, and wonder service. This was my first time to work at Sound Arts (owned by Jeff Wells), and I was impressed even though I had high expectations.

Brian's engineering chops kept me from trying the grab the console and play engineer (which is saying a lot). He kept the session moving smoothly and chimed in with suggestions at just the right moment. His sound is super rich, and he has great ears.

As for Jim, he sang his ass off and kept his focus with me riding him hard. Mike (guitarist of 'Fracus), and Brian kept adding great ideas and the end result was some superior vocal tracks. I will do a bit of editing, and we mix next week.

At one point, I asked Brian if he had a small keyboard that I could use to feed Jim some tones in the headphones. Next thing I know, Brian has a frickin PITCH PIPE in his mouth, 'blowing' us all away with the references we needed. Talk about doing whatever it takes!!!!!



We finish up tomorrow, and I'm sort of sorry it's going to be over so soon. I'll write more after the mixes I'm sure.

tl~d

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