Artisan Studio Session: "A Hope" Recording

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3 years ago

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The recording of "Un Espoir" (A Hope) with Alchemic Journey. Check https://read.cash/@SolarPhasing/ten-artists-ten-songs-project-26845289 for more information about the project.

Producing a title in such a short time is a titanic amount of work. First session set for December 22nd. 2 days of work to prepare the demo with some ghost tracks that will help us to record. We are neither in a professional studio nor even in our rehearsal studio, the government directives prevent us from meeting there. We are going to invest the house of a friend and fan of the band: Anne.

We will meet there in the early afternoon, over several sessions, depending on each other's availability. The laptop prepared and configured for the project has shown signs of weakness when there are many tracks with effects treatments. As a last-minute solution, I borrowed a sufficiently powerful laptop from one of my daughters. Understanding, she was kind enough to give it to me immediately. I had to reinstall and configure it. The downloads of the various necessary software seemed to take so long. I haven't slept a wink but the machine is ready! I checked it once, twice, three times.

Now we're off to the rehearsal studio to get the minimum amount of material needed. The room where we are going to set up is not very big. We had to make some choices. We sacrificed the acoustic drum set in favour of a Roland Octapad SPD-30. An electronic drum set with realistic acoustic kits. We will only use it as a Midi controller, the drum sounds being part of my own Rock kits installed on the production machine. Transporting and installing the acoustic drum kit would have been tedious. We would have had to take all the microphones, mic stands, a Studio One mixer and a MAC that we use as a mixing and recording desk. Without forgetting all the necessary connections. Rendez-vous at 1pm at the friend's house, Anne.

We spent the afternoon installing the equipment in the living room, refurbished for the occasion in a recording studio, and fixing a few problems with the MIDI transmission from the Octapad SPD-30 electronic drum kit to the recording machine. The assignment of the different elements based on an acoustic Pop drum kit. The aim here is to reproduce an acoustic drum set in a very realistic way.

It was clear that we were not going to record today.

Working on the track, second guitarist and singer are missing

So we finished the afternoon by rehearsing on the song. So we had Anne rehearse on the choral parts where she has to sing. We have invited her as a guest on this recording. She had requested this as well. To give colour to the voices. Many beautiful things are born from experimentation.