Posts Tagged ‘recording’
Drums Are Down
Posted by Neil | Filed under Dreams, Juice
The band have now unlocked the cave door and allowed the drummer back out into daylight after spending a week tracking drums for the new album. The grim reality of human inadequacy has been laid bare for all to see, the unforgiving metronomic tock-tock-tocking of the click track showing up all the mistakes and misinterpretations [...]
Fingers In Pies
Posted by Neil | Filed under Dreams
So last week had Neil A engineering and playing on a demo for another group, Neil S adding to the Gear List with further purchases for bass-related stuff, Stevie V arranging rehearsal sessions for a Eurythmics tribute band, and Dan arranging some songs written by one ‘Crazy’ Vince Neads for future recording. TDT HQ would [...]
Demo ahoy!
Posted by Neil | Filed under Dreams, Planting Seeds
Work has begun at the band’s Treehouse studio on bashing, bending, thumping or otherwise persuading the new batch of songs to behave themselves when they’ve been committed to tape. Or hard drive, as the case may be. This style of recording will be something of a departure for the band, as they normally work on [...]
Toying With Instruments
Posted by Neil | Filed under Dreams, Fruits, Skins, The Vine
I’ve finally managed to dig out the photos I was looking for in the morass of junk that gets accumulated at TDT HQ. This is a rather cryptic and yet not-so-difficult to work out reference to what’s happening currently within the realm of The Dreaming Tree. This was taken at a recent live session recording [...]
And low…the guitar tracks did get laid down, and the Lord did grin!!! GOD BE PRAISED!!!
Posted by Dan | Filed under Uncategorized
Yes it was Monday when this happened. I awoke to a loud heavenly voice beckoning me… it did spake and sayeth “DANIEL!!! Get up from thy bed…I have a task for thee which you must undertake at once.” “What is thy bidding oh Lord?” I said, to which the Lord replied…”DANIEL…you are one of my [...]
It’s Going Down Now!
Posted by Neil | Filed under Dreams, Flora and Fauna
Here is a happening-right-now shot of Keyboards Barratt tinkling the ivories in the Treehouse in the midst of recording the new album. It’s important to look past the questionable red shorts and top and instead concentrate on the staggering aura of talent radiating from his being. Those fingers, ladies and gents, contain magic. And in [...]
In A Box
Posted by Neil | Filed under Dreams
This weekend will see work continue apace on the next TDT album, with Steve dropping into the studio to work on keyboard parts. The drums are already complete, and Jim has started bass tracks for some of the songs. All this squeezing in between playing the odd show here and there, starting with tonight’s gig [...]
Beating Your Own
Posted by Neil | Filed under Dreams
A quick update on where we are with the recording of the new album. The drums, looking all resplendant in their glory, have been recorded and the sessions brought home for the rest of the band to begin layering thier parts over. For anyone with a stopwatch, the drums took 4 days to set [...]
Listening To Speakers…
Posted by Neil | Filed under Dreams
I’m here in the studio recording drums for the next album. They sound good. I’m not as rubbish as I thought! For gear-nuts: Pearl Masters MMX 22″ x 18″ bass drum with Powerstroke 3 head, with small ported front head miked with a Sennheiser 421 with a little padding to kill the massive overtones, hit [...]
Warble
Posted by littlebloke | Filed under Uncategorized
It’s early Sunday morning, up early with a sore head. My minds not being very friendly today… Midway through the recording of a whole bunch of acoustic songs.
its been interesting so far; revisiting songs that are our earliest creations while also picking my way through some of the newest material. I still cant decide [...]