Day 30: The Buzz at The Hive

Monday - the first day at The Hive, the real studio. It's nice to have more than one room to hang out in, with other people around, and windows. The Hive is a cool spot. There's about 3 other guys that each have their own room all within the one main big studio. One guy named Allister Johnson works on hip hop beats and remixes, all this sick drum loop stuff. He has a wall full of records that he takes sampes from and mixes them into newer songs, making them sound choooice. He also has turntables and a couple old school keyboards that make wacky noises when you mess with all the knobs. He's really cool too. He took time to show us the remix he was working on for Jully Black and I took some pics of his studio for him. Check out his stuff at: www.myspace.com/alisterjohnson.
Craig Douglas was in again today, that always makes things a bit more fun. We got a few ideas going for this one newer tune we've been working on but it's still not done...coming along nicely though, I think it'll be a rocker. We also got to go to that amazing cafe where the asian husband and wife make the best sandwiches in the world. It's so wonderful.
After lunch we mainly worked on demos and scratch tracks (what Matt and Chris will play along with when they record at Metal Works this weekend) for a few of the newer songs, which were sounding nice over the speakers for the first time. This means playing the song together a bunch of times, recording Matt on the drums, editing the drums a bit, recording Rob, Chris and I on guitars, and then recording Dede and Al for the vocals. We got through about 3 tunes today and left the studio at around 1am. That equals 15 hours in the studio today...which didn't really seem that long, especially after sitting in that room at the church day after day. Like I said it makes it a lot more fun when you get to actually record the songs and listen back to them sounding better and better.
We got home at around 1 30am tonight, leaving us enough time to eat cereal, check email, and go to bed. It was a long one today but it definately feels like we're getting somewhere now. The tunes are coming along nicely, and it's getting closer to the serious recording sessions - very exciting but lots of work coming up. Stay tuned and say a prayer for us if you think of it. Thanks...goodnight!
Jordan