So here we are once more, in the playground of the..... High technology studio environment!
I've been having great fun recently working (and ploughing loads of hard earned cash) into what started out technically as a "solo" project. Originally I was going to record this at home on my old analogue set up, then upgraded to digital and was going to simply take WAVs of the drums back home... Now it's all being recorded at Craigmont Studios in Glasgow - my mate Shug's studio.
I've been having great fun recently working (and ploughing loads of hard earned cash) into what started out technically as a "solo" project. Originally I was going to record this at home on my old analogue set up, then upgraded to digital and was going to simply take WAVs of the drums back home... Now it's all being recorded at Craigmont Studios in Glasgow - my mate Shug's studio.
It's also less than solo now as Iain has made a huge contribution so far - both with drumming and also constructive criticism like "No, that was shite Neil, do it again"!
The first session back in late July was OK but frustrating as I had over ambitious ideas of how much I personally could get done - plus we'd been off the road for a month and I guess I was a bit rusty. We adjourned back on 18th August and things started to come together. Despite being post gig knackered from the Shiny activities of the previous night and a crappy drive through pissing rain, loads more got done at this second session!! Acoustic guitar, OD guitar, some clean guitar, Moog Taurus and electric pipes all went down at this session under the careful control of Dougie and "oor PM"!
One more musical session to go to finish off the clean guitar, do keyboards, flute, vocals and various percussive noises and job's a good un! Then it's over to Colin's creative wizardry for the final mix...
Don't know what I'll do with this album but suffice to say it's 10 tracks of completely original material, not done by The Shine and a real mixed bag of styles... All I do know is it's likely to be called "It Can't Rain All The Time"
Best of love and keep having fun,
Don't know what I'll do with this album but suffice to say it's 10 tracks of completely original material, not done by The Shine and a real mixed bag of styles... All I do know is it's likely to be called "It Can't Rain All The Time"
Best of love and keep having fun,
N
