Sharp Practise
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11/12/2007 11:49:13 AM
Making a new album
It’s time to get round to making the new Sharp Practise album so I thought I’d put the process into a blog and share the trials and triumphs with a few other people. Hopefully people might find it interesting to read how a record is put together. I’m going to write updates once every two weeks and if anyone wants to comment along the way about any aspect of the blog they can contact me via admin@sharppractise.com.
The idea is to make a twelve song record, all original songs, and record it in my own studio in Wigan. I’ve just taken delivery of a Yamaha AW2400, 24-track digital machine, to upgrade from my old Fostex DMT-8. The old machine has been great – I made my solo album Book Of Days on it (with a great deal of inspiration from my producer Fran Ashcroft) and we only took the material to a bigger studio to add some analogue warmth and make the final mixes.
I’m feeling very upbeat about the whole recording process. Apart from the good results achieved from my engineering the solo record (dusting down some long forgotten skills from early in my career in music) I’ve just made some demos with a cracking local girl singer called Claire Pilling. Although self-praise is no recommendation, the results are better than some I’ve heard from so-called professional studios.
On top of which I’m still on a high from the band winning a UK New Music Award this month. Anyway, that’s it for today – I’m off to sort some songs out and that will be the topic of my next blog entry in two weeks’ time.
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