take 74213498, rolling....
now playing: without a trace
long, LONG day at the studio - finally got to meet marc moss, blakes' partner in crime for the three aunt pat albums...nice guy. he played me some remixes of some rare stevie nicks tracks he'd worked on, and then blake and i got to work - we set up two amps, a fender vibrolux and a marshall head that was never even turned on, much less used. we finished two complete tracks in what i've come to know as typical blake style - i call it subtractive recording...recording dozens more tracks than you need and then sitting and analyzing them, maybe comping them together into a single track, maybe just using the first one you did, but essentially, subtractive recording involves throwing absolutely everything at the wall, and then scraping stuff off until you have something.
admittedly, there was a fair amount of subtractive recording during the making of "our mutual angels", so it's not a foreign concept to me...
i think that blake worries that i become impatient during all this, but patience isn't as much of a factor as my muso-biological clock...i have a finite amount of "keepers" in me...there are X number of good takes in me before i start becoming either bored or tired and things get either too mechanical or too sloppy. but i can typically reel 'em off for longer than i need to, because people usually only want one good take...but then sometimes there are exceptions...
gotta finish some stuff here at the house this weekend - the jodi project starts very soon, and i have to go get the van next week.
all the stuff i need to do before bed, but all i want to do is sleep. it was 4 am when i got home this morning, 6:30 when i got up...so i'm overdue.
long, LONG day at the studio - finally got to meet marc moss, blakes' partner in crime for the three aunt pat albums...nice guy. he played me some remixes of some rare stevie nicks tracks he'd worked on, and then blake and i got to work - we set up two amps, a fender vibrolux and a marshall head that was never even turned on, much less used. we finished two complete tracks in what i've come to know as typical blake style - i call it subtractive recording...recording dozens more tracks than you need and then sitting and analyzing them, maybe comping them together into a single track, maybe just using the first one you did, but essentially, subtractive recording involves throwing absolutely everything at the wall, and then scraping stuff off until you have something.
admittedly, there was a fair amount of subtractive recording during the making of "our mutual angels", so it's not a foreign concept to me...
i think that blake worries that i become impatient during all this, but patience isn't as much of a factor as my muso-biological clock...i have a finite amount of "keepers" in me...there are X number of good takes in me before i start becoming either bored or tired and things get either too mechanical or too sloppy. but i can typically reel 'em off for longer than i need to, because people usually only want one good take...but then sometimes there are exceptions...
gotta finish some stuff here at the house this weekend - the jodi project starts very soon, and i have to go get the van next week.
all the stuff i need to do before bed, but all i want to do is sleep. it was 4 am when i got home this morning, 6:30 when i got up...so i'm overdue.
posted by tom at 22:05
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