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Originally Posted by Killahurts Outstanding Michael!
Sounds like it's gonna be fun. So what was the preproduction like (for a big time band like that, I've always wondered)? I mean like were there any rough recordings, or did you guys just practice and work on arrangements? |
Both. They send me 11 of the 12 songs we are going to be recording. Rachel did pretty good demos in his studio. I worked on the arrangements here at home before I drove down there and we went through it song by song in their rehearsal room. Song #12 is a bit more of a spontaneous piece and we left most of it to when we are actually recording. We were done with the arrangements on Friday and we used Saturday to run through all the songs twice.
At this point drums, bass and basic RGTR are rehearsed to the point where they can play it without having to think about it and all vocal meloies are worked out. The drummer gets here today and we set up drums and get basic tones, pick the right drums, heads etc. The band comes up tomorrow. They get settled into the appartment and we get the rest of the sounds for tracking. Actual tracking starts on Wednesday.