SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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12/12/2006 4:00:36 PM
Home recording!
Silverwood Studio is going into the studio tonight, after several days practicing our 6 new songs, from blues based tunes "When you go to meet your Maker", through to a new song about the scarcity of clean water on the planet " One Man" and another Folk / Pop song called "Drummer".
We own our Yamaha AW4416 desk, plus we still use the 4 track ( Tascam 424 Mk 111 Portastudio) for practice and structuring the final arrangement.We practice on full P.A. and amps to get a good live sound, then break it down to individual instruments( with a simple drum beat to keep the timing) then add the live drums and finally, the vocals.
We are usually up all night with a few wines or beers, not excessive, as the mind must stay sharp! As we live all around the country it becomes a bit of a re union as well and songs go through a process of re structuring, before we come to the final arrangement, which we capture on a piece of A4.
We are very interested in hearing from other bands who do their own recording, what works for you? What gear you use? How wasted do you allow yourselves to get? How much do you save by not having to hire a studio?
Did I mention fun????
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12/14/2006 3:10:04 AM
I use a Roland VS1680, do it one instrument after another, starting with a drum track.
You can get a lot of intimacy using home recording, and take your time on performances that you won't get in the studio. Course for the bigger band sound, the studio can help that a lot.
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Maria Daines
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12/16/2006 1:13:44 PM
We use a Boss BR1180, 8 track recorder. We start with a basic drum track then add rough acoustic, I sing to that and then Paul adds everything afterwards, he re-plays the guitar, whether its acoustic, electric or both, plays bass, keys and adds any other percussion etc., we feel that putting the vocals down first and shortly after the song has been written (literally minutes) works for us because the essence & the emotion of the original writing is captured. Music can then be guided by the vocals rather than the other way round. We record all our music this way, just the two of us, occasionally our daughter Marybeth sings backing vocals, and then when we play live the band plays all these individual parts, it's handy that we always have a demo track to give them to learn the song as a head start, but of course we still have to spend many hours knocking the songs together as a team. We also dispense with any keyboard parts when we play live because we're only a 4 piece, drums, guitar, bass and vocal. This is a great topic & good luck with your new songs :)
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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12/16/2006 4:56:34 PM
That's pretty much the opposite to our method / maybe because your voice is your instrument, where as we often build the music track all the way, keep it as an instrumental and then make up lyrics for the music if it seems a likely candidate for a song!
Also, because we do work for indie film makers we are always on the lookout for melodies and tunes that will suit different genres!
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