Packing up some of Mr. Means Birthday pkg. (don't worry Ed I'll save a few) and going out on a beautiful day for our bands first recording session. We're bsically a Southern Rock/Blues Band and wouldn't you know that our 1 st recording will be for a country music competition., LOL. We'll be doing "She's a Little Runaway" for a friend that sings in an American Idol type country music competition. After a couple of my special hand rolled stock ;/), I'll be breaking into a PAM Superior and washing it down with an Elvin Bishop special (50 or 60 yuear old Budwieser). After the PAM the only way to go is Cuban 🙂

I hope everone has a wonderful Sunday doing what ever it is you love to do.

Keep the lit end out,

Barry

Hey good luck Barry!!

Elvin Bishop? Heck I saw him in concert decades ago, is he still around? Know I got an LP around of him.

Did not know you could roll cigars either - WOW.

Mail me later and let me know how things went.

BUD

Good luck!

Yeah, I saw Elvin 6 or 8 years ago at our local Blues Club, Moes's Alley. Still rocks hard. He's cool.

Barry,

What do you play? I play bass in an eclectic jazz/hardrock/funk band. Love the recording studio. Best of luck and may you put everything down on the first take.

A few tips...

Live recording

Best sounding. Drum mics will pick up guitars and provides some extra ambience. Play hard and redo the whole song if you have to. Any mistakes will be picked up by the drum mics and will be impossible to overdub unless you somehow totally isolate the guitar amps and drum mics.

Overdub

Easiest. Keep the guitars and bass low. Just loud enough to cue the drummer. The drummer should use headphones if possible and get his cues that way with guitars and bass virtually silent at the drum mics. Then you can lay down the bass, guitars and vocals and make 'em perfect. This is what the pros do. You don't want ANY mistakes on a studio recording!

If you're at a decent studio, trust your engineer as your producer to get the best sound. Don't go in with any pre-conceived notions of what it should sound like. Less is usually more on fx and compression. Don't squash your sound. Every recording is different and will require its own tweeking. Just make sure that the drums and bass are loud enough or it'll have no balls.

Best o' luck!

Break a leg

Well, it was a down and dirty homemade recording but it serves the purpose. All we needed is something for an entry tape. The next will be in the competion.

HarleyDave, I play rythum guitar and harmonica. We play for fun, food, drink and the experience. Just good times.

Smoked some good smokes today too. Had one of the best tasting PAMs I've had in a while and it was right out of the box, the Superior. Followed it up with an Opus X #4. The PAM beat it hands down.

Barry

O.K. so my tips were late and overkill. Next time.

How'd it go?

Congrats Barry. Let us know when we can get copies.

Cheers, Bill