Follow-up info on "The EP"

Hullo!

As of right now, Angie and I are deciding what name to release the EP under and what to title the record, so I'm just going to keep referring to it on here as The EP.

This is the tracklist (order subject to change):

1. Bites

2. X's in Squares

3. Somewhere a Home

4. The Visit

Jonah and I have already tracked "Bites" and "The Visit". "Bites" was tracked over 8 hours at a pro-studio called Carterco Recording (I'll post some of those pictures soon). The studio is in a warehouse work loft in Chicago, and has a really great vibe! The control room has a nice view of the water, and the place is dimly lit by chinaball lanterns--not so dimly lit that it interfered with playing, but dim enough that my camera's ISO couldn't go high enough =/.

From what I can remember, we used a Neumann U87 condenser mic for the vocal tracks and ran the double-tracked vocals through a reverb chamber. In PT, we ended up with both the dry and wet tracks. I ran my Telecaster ('08, BUT SOMEDAY IT WILL BE VINTAGE) through a Fender Hotrod Deluxe for all of the guitar tracks. We mic'd that, as well as the kick drum with an Electrovoice RE-20. They had this retro-ass organ which I used for a small part of the song, but upon further evaluation with Dan Smart, we're going to try and get a more agreeable tone at his place, with his multiple-organ setup. One might even call it an organ system.

Friday, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya of The Paramedics (if I hyperlinked all of his other bands, this whole post would look blue and underlined) is headed over to Albany Studios to do drums on "X's in Squares". It's probably the punkiest/nineties-est song on the album, so I'm sure he'll tear it up.

This weekend, Dan and I start tracking what's left. That'll start with "Somewhere a Home",

which we're doing from the ground up. The following day, we'll be adding pieces to the other 3

songs to make them "hit-harder"--an extra guitar line here and there, a piano overdub, backup vocals, et cetera. After that all of my hard work is done. It's all on Dan to bring a bitch to life.

Which I know he will.

NN

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