Adventure Thing #38 - Bassssssssss Update (Patreon)

Today is more of a progress update, as I'm happy to say that tonight we're having our final day of tracking bass at Bill's studio.

I thought I'd take a bit to update you on the way in which we're recording this album, because we're trying to maximize the amount of creative flexibility we have and stretch our budget as far as it can go.

We've finished our drum tracking, and drums are an interesting beast since there's really no getting around tracking them 100% in a great studio with great gear in real time. We did 3 full days of drum tracking, and got some really great stuff.

However, now that we're moving on to bass, we have some options. Tonight is our third night of bass tracking, which we're doing at Bill's studio. From here, we can do edits and get our finalized bass tracks, all without needing to use valuable (read: expensive) studio time.  Then we'll take a few hours in the studio and re-amp these tracks, so it will be as if Hari played a flawless take of each song while only using a fraction of the studio cost. 

Magic!

We can't really do this as much with guitars, since the way you play a guitar interacts with the amp and the room in real time, which means playing style can have a very significant impact on the overall sound. This means as we move on to guitars we're looking at more studio time, but worry not, it's all in the budget, and it's all coming out awesomely so far (as you'll soon be able to hear once we have some edited roughs, which will likely be released as adventure things themselves).

Until soon!