We spent yesterday in the recording studio and laid down five tracks.
Thanks to Andy at RMS studios for helping make it a productive day.
It’s our first time in a proper studio. Earlier recordings – including our cd – have been diy affairs. And while we were pleased with those, it was so much easier using a proper studio with great acoustics, good equipment – including microphones well outside our budget, and someone else operating the controls with both good ears and years of experience at getting good recordings.
It also meant that we were able to play as live. In the past we have always had to record the rhythm section first and then add horns and vocals as overdubs. But yesterday we were able to get down Latin goes Ska, all playing together, on the second take at the end of the day when we were running out of time.
The tracks we recorded were:
- The Tide is High
- Tainted Love
- Paranoid
- Dr Who
- Latin goes Ska
Now comes the slower job of mixing and mastering, but another advantage of having a great recording to start with is that this is much easier than with less upmarket equipment.
We also have some video, though that was a lower priority, and hope to have enough to put together one of us playing Tainted Love.
Here are some pictures we took during the day.
