Record a Song

“When I got to the studio I was pretty nervous to begin with. A recording studio is really just a dark sound-proof room with all the equipment set-up. It took a few takes to get warmed up. I definitely cringed at the first couple of takes. You never know what it's going to sound like with the equipment and how your voice is that day. [...] It's a lot of pressure because you're spending time and money and it feels crappy when you screw it up. But from all takes, they can piece something together which sounds good.”

“Though I have recorded demos before, this is my first experience recording full band tracking for my songs. [...] First, you get a clean take of the guitar track, playing to a click. Then you lay down some scratch vocals over the top so that all of the other instruments have some sense of a flow of the song. And this is where it gets fun! You bring in different instruments and have them each record unique complementary parts. Layer upon layer upon layer. Hour upon hour upon hour.”