Fun fun fun while producing

Lots of vocals recorded at the moment. Sabine went to Luc on sunday to record 4 songs, and I worked my ass off on monday. Well to be honest not all work but also some play... we happened to visit the local tuning show as a sort of "break". Okay, when in Rome do like Romans do (but then projected on Tienen city) ... so we couldn't say no to this great opportunity.

So Jeroen (my friend and Lucs neighbour) drove us to a freakin' tuning show... after arriving there we immediatly heared that there would be a 'sexy-show' in 10min... you can't imagine how happy Luc was! ;) Well, we still had 10 minutes until the grand finale so we decided to check out a collection of the most disgusting cars you've ever seen. Lime green, orange, pink,... even an old Opel Corsa in the same color as the one I'm driving with an enhanced front was showing itself... why???
Oh yes mom?!!? Look at the things you can do with your Twingo below!!!

But hey, then came the famous 'sexy-show'. Happened to be a striptease act with a very troubled 16 year old as the lucky one. I don't have to mention it was funny as hell??

Look for yourselves:
Mom's dreamcar!!!


Oh yes, we are at a tuning show! Jeroen loves it!


Well he had his 10min of luck...


Must say it was a good break. Had a laugh, cars, woman and an ice cream...
Oh yes, and I finished my vocal parts too later on... Didn't lack any inspiration.

Day 4 and 5: the click track, more guitars, the vocals and mixing time

Okay I skipped a day to blog. Not that it was all my fault, didn't have internet when I woke up day 5 so couldn't blog on day 4... and afterwards I had to sing... But no prob I'll give you an update on what we did these 2 days in the studio.

Day 4 was mostly about the guitars. We Joris, Jimmy and I started early in the morning with setting up the guitars and looking for some cool sounds for our songs. We finetuned Joris his guitar sound and made sure he could bust some balls hitting his rocking chords! When Luc arrived we immediately started with the recording of Jimmy's guitar. Like we were getting used this didn't quite go as easy as planned. But hey, we want to work hard to get it as good as we can! At about 9 in the evening, Joris could start with his first guitar parts. Some songs were recorded but the rest was for our final day...

Day 5 started with Joris his final guitar riffs. Jimmy also did some final tweekings from some riffs and then we had a long listen to the whole tracks. We ended with Sabine and me doing a pilot of our vocals so Luc can start with the mixing of the tracks we have so far.

Looking back: we could say we started recording with not enough rehearsals to actually play our songs without effort. Thanks to Luc we all fell that we were reaching a new level in music playing. That was looking back the most rewarding thing of these first 5 days of studio... we learned how to operate and play as a rocking machine instead of 6 people playing together. Have we arrived at that rocking level? Hell no! But from now on we have an idea how to improve our playing. On both a live rocking but also a recording level.

So for now, Luc is going to mix the tracks and then we hit his studio again for a complete vocal recording session.

Joris recording: