Cheese and Lead Vocals

It was ladies night at the studio yesterday... lead vocals for a couple songs as well as some backups. Emily and Leah did the honors this time.

Tom was there as usual helping test things, giving encouragement to the girls, and providing a general air of feel-goodery to the night's work. The importance of these things to a successful recording can not be underestimated... trust me.

Along those same lines, Max Roberts was there tonight for some guitar work and brought along a fancy plate of assorted cheeses and crackers. This type of thing compliments the decour of this dingy basement studio very well i might add. So while we feasted on gorgonzola and bre, we knocked out a vocal part for Morning Guilds The Skies and Thy Love Bind Us.

After Emily finished her lead part we quickly jumped on

capturing a nifty little lead line Max wrote for Thy Love. Tara was there and added a double on the Juno. You cannot deny how great that synth is. The only downside is that after 5 minutes of slider-noodling to find the right sound (which we did) i am now required to take 5 pictures of the thing so we can re-create the sound if we have to since there is no memory or presets on this beast. Here's a shot of the Tara-Max duo getting it to sound right. Sandy was there as well (the shoulder on the left) making sure we were pronouncing all the words correctly in the lead parts. Again.... Invaluable to a successful recording!

Emily sang a backup to When Will Thou Save The People... firmly planting that song in the "Done Tracking" bin. A few mix tweaks and it's "All Done". We are poised to release an EP if there's enough interest... so again.. please let it be known if this is something you're interested in (thanks to those who have already!)

This past weekend we embarked on one of our Thrift Store Tours, in which 10 of us piled in the van and headed out to Lancaster County, PA to rifle through old used clothing bins and scour the countryside for old paintings and gaggy lamps as we made our way from thrift store to thrift store. I'd wager the Lancaster area has more thrift shops per square mile than any place on the planet. You can experience the first "tour" we did in '07 here in this youtube vid. I got another couple hymnals on this trip, so at this point i have enough material to last us 12 more albums or so. Tom was there of course and came away with many many delightful outfits and clothing articles, one of which was these pants here on the right. Snazzy.