Hey everyone! Read this blog and all of your wildest dreams will come true! OK, so things have been slow for saints at sundown for a few weeks. Basically, the record is "in the can" just waiting to be mixed. Well....it was in the can.
I will tell you a story. You will understand our struggle and send us boxes of money and a vial of your sympathy tears.
Last week, my good friend and sound engineer, Dave Sonner, and myself entered summit road recording studio to start mixing. Upon entering the studio we were greeted by about 2 inches of standing water, and a mildew-ey kind of gross smell to the air. YUCK!!! With wet feet and dashed hopes and dreams, we fired up the console and proceeded to do a little mixing work. There was a wierd hum in the monitors, but we did manage to mix 1 song quickly and get out of there without getting shocked. S.A.S.: 1, mother nature: 0. EPIC WIN! My theory is that the forces that make the world go round are afraid of what this record is going to do to our beautiful little planet. We are being "rock-blocked" by mother nature herself! BRING IT ON, LADY!!!!
Exactly 1 week later, I met Dave at his place before our 2nd mixing session. We fired up pro tools to find that my vocal tracks had been ERASED during an upgrade to pro tools!!!! WEAK SAUCE!!! Where the *blank* did they go? About 1/3 of my tracks were gone so we spent the morning re-tracking vocals. The good news is that I nailed killer takes that were as good or better than the first ones. The bad news is that these takes SOUND different from the first ones. It's a pretty noticeable difference. We used a different mic pre-amp, thinking it wouldn't matter. MISTAKE. SO, chances are I'll have to re-record the vocals again, for the 3rd time. YIKES, this is becoming tedious. I wonder what could have erased the tracks??? Aliens? Obama?
This week, with the studio all dried out, we did manage to make progress on the overall mix of the record. Let me tell you, it sounds pretty amazing! I'm really happy with how it is turning out. It's taken a couple of months longer than I hoped, but in the end the wait will be worth it!
With everything against us, we are at our strongest!
Love,
S.A.S.
