Saturday 19 January 2013

Recording Rhythm In The Right Place

Recording the sounds together

Our hi-tech professional mic/recording set-up
Spent today trying to get a rhythm track of guitar and piano recorded simultaneously into one mic for a new recording of the song "In The Wrong Places".  We've had the idea for a few weeks now as the living room of this apartment has a nice reverb and we wanted to record something here before we left.  For ages now we've spoken of how to keep a live feel on our next batch of songs - hence why we played together and didn't record piano and guitar separately.  We'll then overdub some extra guitar, percussion and vocals another time.

It's the first time we've played together this way and without a click track or anything to keep time so the challenge was mainly locking into the same rhythm.  Not easy without a drummer and no vocals to guide you.  It was fun and something we want to do more of.