Tomaz24
06-25-2007, 05:13 PM
Hi I’m the guitarist in a funk band from the UK and I’m wondering what to do about the delicate issue of recording…
You see, we’re all pretty young and this summer period was supposed to be the one window we’d have for professionally recording our album. But a member or two since then have committed to going away at certain points and so the reality now is that we have about a month to record.
We’ve been waiting to do this for around six months and we have experience recording with a make-shift studio run by a county band teacher. My issue is that everything now seems to be so last minute.
I’ve written three or four decent tunes that I’m convinced could become something great. I’ve presented two of them to the band but with so many gigs lately we haven’t been able to develop them. I’m sure other people also have new material and it would be a shame if we had to rush them or disregard them for the sake of getting the album done this summer. (I’m assuming we won’t be doing another)
Having said that, we do have enough A material already...
The band member sorting everything out hasn’t had much contact with our original studio (to be fair, because their technician has been a bitch to get hold of) and now he’s looking at a plan B that has some bloke come to us to record, he has experience with a great band from our area but he seems a bit dodgy to me. Screams practicality over quality to me too, which I don’t like.
We’ve worked up about £500 for this and I’d hate to see it wasted on a less than great recording (our demo with the county band teacher was brilliant in terms of quality with what was available) so what should I do?
I really want to get this done this summer too, by the way, because it means we’ll get much more publicity, gigs and it should sell well from September to the end of the year.
www.indiestore.com/freefall - check us out.
You see, we’re all pretty young and this summer period was supposed to be the one window we’d have for professionally recording our album. But a member or two since then have committed to going away at certain points and so the reality now is that we have about a month to record.
We’ve been waiting to do this for around six months and we have experience recording with a make-shift studio run by a county band teacher. My issue is that everything now seems to be so last minute.
I’ve written three or four decent tunes that I’m convinced could become something great. I’ve presented two of them to the band but with so many gigs lately we haven’t been able to develop them. I’m sure other people also have new material and it would be a shame if we had to rush them or disregard them for the sake of getting the album done this summer. (I’m assuming we won’t be doing another)
Having said that, we do have enough A material already...
The band member sorting everything out hasn’t had much contact with our original studio (to be fair, because their technician has been a bitch to get hold of) and now he’s looking at a plan B that has some bloke come to us to record, he has experience with a great band from our area but he seems a bit dodgy to me. Screams practicality over quality to me too, which I don’t like.
We’ve worked up about £500 for this and I’d hate to see it wasted on a less than great recording (our demo with the county band teacher was brilliant in terms of quality with what was available) so what should I do?
I really want to get this done this summer too, by the way, because it means we’ll get much more publicity, gigs and it should sell well from September to the end of the year.
www.indiestore.com/freefall - check us out.