My first "on location" recording session

Posted on May 16, 2005 02:14 pm
Tadpui
I am not a crook's head
Member Since: Mar 14, 2003

We all hit these little milestones in our home recording hobby, and its always a lot of fun for me whenever I do something that I've never done before.

Well, this past weekend I went to visit a friend of mine to do some recording at his home in Tulsa. He lives in a musician's paradise: out in the country, with a climate-controlled garage full of every rock and roll instrument and gear imaginable.

We got all set up on Friday night, got a couple of sound checks in before we were too intoxicated and tired to do any more. After a great greasy Eggbert's breakfast, we got down to business and managed to get drums for 2 tracks, and some odds and ends for those same 2 tracks. I'm really looking forward to digging in to the mixing and the rest of the tracking for these songs.

I learned a WHOLE lot during this session, being my first time to track drums, my first time to track electric guitar with both a dynamic and condensor, first time to record harmonica, and also my first time to work with another musician during the recording process...I'm usually the lone ranger in my home hobby studio.

I must say that I'm VERY proud of my gear. It all performed wonderfully, and I got lots of compliments on how efficient and flexible my setup is. And I have to thank all of you here for helping me to decide upon and find the right gear that obviously works very well for me!

And my LP into my Traynor YCV80 cranked up sounded so good that everybody that heard it stopped to compliment it :)

Oh well, I just had to share my elation.

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