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by NewAndImprov » Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:58 pm
29th: Nothing audio related, other than listening to a bunch of CD's from the library, found an amazing disc of the Hue court music from Vietnam, has an instrument that sounds remarkably like pedal steel and the vocals have that pinched nasal quality of Appalachian folk. Intersting stuff.
30th: Began the 2nd week of sessions on a pop record for a vocalist/songwriter. I worked on her last disc a few years ago, which was more of a jazz/world music kind of thing. This disc is pure pop, one tune is straight-up Motown, other stuff is not dissimilar to Coldplay or Ben Folds. This is actually a big change for me, most of the recording/production I've done for the last few years has been jazz, electronic stuff, avant stuff, wierd hip hop, or some combination of the above. So big, vocal-centered pop recording is a challenge. But fun. Am working with a very talented guitarist who can play basically everything. I'm playing bass and some keys.
Unfortunately, we are assembling the basic tracks without a drummer, the neither of the 2 drummers we are going to use are not available now, and the guitarist is leaving to teach overseas in 2 weeks. We are tracking to click tracks and programmed beats, and both drummers are great at following a click, but I'm not a fan of assembling a rhythm section.
My Shinybox 23 is getting a lot of use on these sessions, most guitar tracks are done through it. Tracked cello with it last week, sounded rich, deep and awesome. It's great on vocals as well, we've only done scratch tracks so far, but on some of tunes where we are going for an older sound and production style, it'll definitely work for final vox. I'm very pleased with this mic so far.
Will also add a horn section, string section later, and possibly a gospel choir. Fun, fun, fun...
