The Ebb And The Flow » Recording

8.5.08

Jeremiah Edmond — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:16:26 +0000

Harrison Hudson spent the day with us at the studio yesterday taking photos and hanging out. He let everyone ride his scooter which we were sure would end in disaster but everyone made it through unharmed. Here are a couple photos from the day.

We finished tracking “Everything To Nothing” last night. Everyone seems to be getting used to the monitoring system and playing together with the click track and headphones and everything.

Afterward I went out with harrison to grab a drink at the Taproom and then he crashed at the hotel with us. It was nice to get out somewhere other than the studio or hotel. Our friend Tommy Hans is here at the studio now hanging out. He was kind enough to let us come hang out at his house the first night we got here. He used to play in a band called Arkitekt that we Manchester used to play with allot before I joined the band and we havent seen much of his in the last couple years so it has been great to see him.

My wife is on her way to Nashville now for the weekend so I am excited to see her. I’m sure it will be a little boring for her at the studio and I won’t have a ton of time to hang out but I am really looking forward to seeing her.

We have been tracking a song tentatively named “Tony The Tiger” today. We had some issues with Andy’s amp that took a while to fix and then got through a handful of takes and now Joe is comping it all together to see if we need to track anymore while we hang out and wait for or sushi to arrive. Hopefully we got it all and can get through another track before wrapping tonight.

Black X-mas

Jeremiah Edmond — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:05:29 +0000

I am currently sitting in the lounge at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, TN where we are working on our new album. We loaded in yesterday and pent the whole day setting up, testing out different gear and mics and finding the right sounds. My drums setup and oversized cymbals gave Joe alot of trouble So we ended up spending a good bit of time on the drums. I ended up going to Fork’s Drum Closet this morning and bought a 24″ giant beat ride and a 20″ giant beat crash. They sound much better in the room than the 2002’s I was playing.
We finally got to tracking today and started with “Black Man”. It took us a while to get out mixes right and fight the right tempo and the right click track but we finally got through it and did a few takes of the song. Joe is currently sorting through them and making sure we have everything we need.
We will probably try and get started on another song before calling it a night.
I lost the cable that connect my camera to the computer so I don’t have any photos to post yet. Maybe I will get a cable tomorrow.
I need to go watch what may be the best film ever. “Black X-mas”.

prepro wrap up

Jeremiah Edmond — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:23:12 +0000

This last week has been a whirlwind. We have been doing pre production with Joe Chicarelli each day which has been awesome. Joe has had such great ideas and input and the songs are even better now than they were last week. This whole writing process has been interesting and different for all of us. With the last record we had been playing most of the songs for a while before recording them and knew exactly what we wanted them to sound like. With this record we wrote everything in a very short amount of time and left a lot of it open to work through in pre production. We are all extremely excited to see how they continue to progress once we get into the studio.
Today I am heading to Matt Malpass’ studio Marigolds & Monsters to work on a new project for Favorite Gentlemen. We are going to be recording video and audio of Right Away, Great Captain! performing a few songs for a new series we are starting. This is the test run so I am excited to see how it all turns out. J is helping out and taking care of all of the video duties. It is amazing having friends like Matt and J, that are so talented at what they do and who are willing to get involved and try new things like this. Hopefully all will go smoothly.

Pre-Production – Day 1

Jeremiah Edmond — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:06:56 +0000

Today was day one of pre-preoduction with Joe Chicarelli. Joe will be producing the new album. We work on two songs today. It is always takes a little while to get used to another persons work flow and ideas and comment but by the end of the day I think we all felt really comfortable with Joe and him ideas really added a lot to the songs. I think both songs were much better by the end of the day.
Tomorrow we will try and get through another song or two and then we get to go see My Morning Jacket play at The fabulous Fox Theater tomorrow night. We are all extremely excited to them play again as they are mind blowing live. If you haven’t seen them, go buy OKONOKOS. They released a live DVD and CD that are awesome. Our friend Sam Erickson Directed it and it is one of the best live films I have ever seen.

New Album

Jeremiah Edmond — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:46:21 +0000

A few people have been asking about the status of the new album. We start pre-production with our producer Joe Chicarelli. We go to nashville to start recording the album Sept 1st and then will continue in Atlanta. I will update the blog during the process.

Our EP/DVD will be released October 14th, so hopefully that will hold everyone over until the new album. There are two new songs on it.

Blood, Sweat and Sweat

Jeremiah Edmond — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:17:37 +0000

Today was spent at Chris Griffin’s mastering studio in east Atlanta, mastering Harrison Hudson’s new record. Favorite Gentlemen is releasing the record, entitled “Blood, Sweat and Sweat”. Dan Hannon finished mixing it last night and today we finished mastering. We are all really happy with the way it has turned out. It is much more stripped down than his last record and more focused. I am really excited to get it printed up and out into peoples hands. He has posted three of the new songs to his myspace, so go check them out. Here is the album cover and a couple pictures from today.