So to recap breifly, February's challenge was laid out to give us a strict 3 week time frame to produce within. We're now a week and a half in, and we're finished with writing, and recording! That puts us about a week ahead of schedule- maybe more depending on how long mixing takes! There are some caveats though.
1. Since we had no group reheasal of the song before recording, recording itself was very time consuming. Most of us needed to record our parts section by section.
2. There are a couple parts that, now listening back to the rough mix, may need to be re-recorded before this gets released.
Fortunately the spots I'm hearing are in the violin, and my recording setup is relatively simple.
There were also a huge positive that came out of this recording session, and that is multi-tracking the bowed strings (violin and bass). Regardless of how it's mixed this track will sound like a metal band playing with a string orchestra, which now that I've heard it, I'm going to incorporate some layered multitracking into how I write Lumus songs at the get go. It's a much more symphonic sound and I really enjoy it. The planner in me would have liked the extra tracks to have been planned out though so that I wasn't songwriting in the studio.
In studio songwriting isn't time effecient. It's not money efficient either for those of you not lucky enough to have a sound engineer in your band. It should be noted that without Joe's willingness to be both drummer and recording engineer, we wouldn't have had the money to make this happen at all.
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