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White Lights Recording Session
So tomorrow is the first day of the White Lights recording session. We’re doing 4 songs with producer Jim Roach (www.jimroachmusic.com) at Thud Studios in North Hollywood. Tonight we set up the kit, hit some stuff, mic’d some stuff, and got set up for an easy start tomorrow morning.
I stopped by my endorser, Soultone Cymbals, this past Friday and grabbed a few new cymbals for this session. Snagged a trashy pair of 15” hats, and a 19” extreme crash which is mostly unlathed except for the top middle. Combined with my 21” Soultone Classic Ride and my 19” Zildjian K Session Custom, the cymbals really sound great. The kit needs some tuning work but for the most part, we’re ready to go. This time around, I’m using a 24 x 16 DW Kick drum, an 8 x 12 DW rack tom, a 14 x 14 Pearl Masters floor tom, and a 6.5 x 14 DW 20 ply snare drum. All maple drums, and they are sounding pretty huge in the studio.
I’ve been in LA for about a year and a half playing with Nabeel and Shane (and most recently, our keys player, Jannette) and it’s really nice to be able to lay some of the 30 or so songs we’ve written down to tape. We’ve done a bunch of sub par recording over the past year and a half, and it’s going to be good to track something that sounds great before I check out of LA for a while.
I tend to fall in love with pretty much all of Nabeel’s songs, and the band is about to release three or four releases in the next year, these 4 songs on an ep, a 5 song acoustic ep, and an electronic and/or live record. i’m just psyched to have something to jam to on my ipod. keep your eyes peeled for White Lights in the future.
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