Paul Young came over today to play on Fiona Elwood’s weird wooden block drum thing.. I think it’s supposed to be Egyptian.. Anyway it’s very cool. We decided to open the piano up and place the ‘drum’ right under the keys so it can resonate the strings. We put a heavy tent bag over the sustain pedal. Voila! Not sure if it will add that much resonance on this percussion track for Still Cry (the reggae song we’re working on for Peter B & The Homeless Souls) , but it was fun to hear the strings vibrate! It took a few takes to get the rhythm right.. then I accidentally lost the early takes, which was okay because Paul did 2 awesome takes in the end.
For the EP I’m working on, we went to a proper studio to record the drums, bass and keyboard live. And then I came home with all those tracks and have recorded the vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, a piano accordian and now a weird wooden drum box thing.. in my dining room.
Anyone who has tried their hand on home-recording will probably tell you that it’s lots of fun. And that it’s pretty easy to get started. All you need is a computer, a recording program (I love Protools), a sound interface (I love my MBox), and microphone. Inspired?
Perfectionists beware.. once you start it’s VERY hard to stop. Thankfully I’m not one of those 🙂
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