Guitars done for "Brotherhood"
We were busy this past week. Between mixing several songs for other local groups I managed to fit in a couple excellent sessions on our new song Brotherhood . Last weekend we tracked Misty on the drums, and the bedtracks still make me smile. There are little subtle noises in the background which seems to bless this song with extra life. I'd finished my bass part early in the week and then Juice added some expertly played hand percussion to give some polish to the song. After that we put a guide guitar part down. It was Juice's idea to track his guitars on two different sessions, the first time to simply capture what we were playing live, giving us a chance to listen back to the arrangement. That was important because it allowed Isabelle and I to record our vocals to a backing track that had the full dynamics of the song. One should never under-estimate how important the vibe needs to be before getting a keeper lead vocal. Seems simple bu...