Hola lovelies.

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve written to you, but we really had a fantastic studio session last Friday and I wanted to let you in on it. Friday started off a little off schedule. The night before while we were driving to our acoustic show in Salem the ‘Service Engine Soon’ light lit up. The van’s been a little finicky lately. It has been 122,000 miles after all. Our session was to start at 1pm, but the mechanic was a bit backed up, so we didn’t make it to the studio till 4:30. Van’s still being temperamental, but that’s a story for another day. There was a lot of mixing that got done that day and a sorting out of ideas to be worked on throughout the week. Our two pages of notes came down to 3/4 a page. Mainly there’s some level balancing and sound effects to be mixed in. Speaking of sound effects that’s what we did a bit of later that day. We started out with this monologue I’d written to be performed over one of the tracks.

I won’t tell you who read it or what’s on it, but I will say that we put the reading through a tape machine and slowed it down to disguise the voice and make it a little more surreal. Next up we recorded pulling out a piano bench and the creaking sound it makes when you sit on it.

Very exciting. The big project though was dialing up some radio effects. We put one of the tracks through an iPod radio transmitter and hooked it through this old dial up radio; the kind your grandparents had in the house. So, we put the track through that for a bit and recorded a bit of radio static and dialing to use as well. Perhaps one of my favorite moments of recording was all this fun sound effect stuff. I love that sort of thing on records. Doesn’t hurt I was reading a lot about it in Many Years From Now.

Here’s a bit of us messing around with all that in the studio:

Cheers,
Jen

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