On April 5th Sayde Price showed up at the studio. 12 of us spent 3 days laying down 10 songs, all live, no overdubs.
These totally live recordings are interesting; Im never quite sure if we have anything good until after the recording when I can get into comping the takes together. Things go so quickly that it takes a lot of faith on the artists part in the producer and the other players. In fact, we were going so fast on Sayde's album that it wasnt until after we were finished and I was cleaning things up that I realized that all of the eqs and compressors were still bypassed - I had never even had time to turn things on.
It was also during these sessions that I was given the nickname Wiley Cyrus. Not sure I'm into that one.
players -
Sayde Price - guitar, vocals
Dustin Christensen - keyboards, guitar, background vocals
Ryan Tanner - keyboards, guitar, background vocals
Brian Hardy - keyboards, background vocals
Paul Jacobsen - glock, guitar, mandolin, background vocals
Ryan Tilby - bass, banjo
Pat Campbell - drums, percussion
Debra Fotheringham - background vocals
Trevor Hadley - bass, baritone guitar
Dylan Schorer - pedal steel, electric guitar
Nate Pyfer - bass, background vocals, keyboards
me - bass
I also need to say that the only way a session like this can work - doing everything totally live - is if there is a great singer, and Sayde Price is just that. Take after take of amazing vocals.
5 comments:
I love the live take idea. And her voice! WOW! Great work as always, Scott.
How do you keep from getting to much bleed into the vocal mic etc during these live recordings? Everything sounds so clean like you did over dubs.
There is actually tons of bleed, but you just kind of go with it and move the singer until the bleed (usually on the drums) sounds good. and keep the singer close to the mic!
Very cool. I love the way these recordings sound. Great blog! thanks for sharing.
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