Studio Recap: Day Eleven

Joseph Rocks the Melodica

After our Thursday of marvels, there was no way that Friday could measure up. Indeed, it was a grind of a day, although we started strong, with a few small edits to three songs that helped them shine a little brighter.

Much of the day was devoted to vocal work for Joe, and I think he was experiencing something like what I went through a few days ago: the frustration of the endless vocal takes. One of the downfalls of our glorious modern recording technology is that you can record a song, and think it sounds great - or good, or good enough - but when you sit down and listen to the playback, you hear all of these small - or major - imperfections that you couldn't hear while you were singing. It can be very discouraging. But Joe also managed to rock out on the melodica and trombone, so the day had its moments. And Jonathan is playing with Ableton Live more (normally he works in ProTools or Logic, but Joe and I both tend to work in Ableton for our other projects), so it was a day of working and learning.

I have been working away at writing lyrics for a song we are calling "The Constant." So far it is proving elusive.