Studio and tracking No Time

Alrighty friends I'm back. We headed in to the studio a couple of weeks back and got a great start on the record (album, cd or whatever you want to call it). Started on Thursday July 8th and went until the following Sunday. We recorded 15 songs, plus a bunch of interludes and song ideas. Now the main goal of these four days was to get solid drums and whatever else we could get. Juls did an awesome job, she won't need that many punch ins or retakes mostly just backing vox. She's a one take wonder that girl. Jaime will need to punch a few parts here and there and Omar has to redo some parts and of course layer other parts. That poor boy has got a lot of work ahead of him. We all do really.

Once we started recording everything went pretty well. It took a little time adjust to working with a click (that's basically a metronome track we use to keep everything in time), but once the click and I became friends all was well in Leda-land. Everything was so cool and tons of fun. It was a great learning and hugely bonding experience for the band. Jaime, Omar and I def had a blast! And even though Juls hates the studio I know she had a great time! I think I see a few live albums in SL's future.

The one track that stands out to me as probably the best track of the session was when we tracked No Time. Man that was pretty intense. For those of you that aren't familiar with it, No Time was written about the loss of Jaime's stepfather Don E. Carlson. Jaime, Juls and Jaime's mom Dorothy were in a band with Don called Leda's Charm. Don passed a few years ago after a battle with cancer. The song is written from a mix of his perspective and I believe Dorothy's perspective. Before we started recording the song we listened to a song by Leda's Charm that Don had written. It put us in the right place to play No Time. Although I only met Don once or maybe twice I know how much he meant to Jaime and Juls. I could really feel their sense of loss and mourning for him and it reminded me of the loss of my father when I was young. This really helped me channel that emotion in to the song. We went to our respective recording rooms and got ready to record. Our producer, Steve Antenelli, suggested that we track this song with out a click. So Omar started and from the moment we all kicked in it felt amazing. Every note seemed to hit just right, the right tempo, the right feel at just the right intensity. The end of the song starts to build in intensity and man did it build that night. Once we were done with that track we were done for the night. I think I got misty for a while. It was definitely the most intense experience I have ever had recording a song. We were all pretty much exhausted mentally, physically and emotionally. We had just spent a solid 18 hours in the studio over 2 days and ended it with our most emotional tune. We just got mixes from those sessions and they sound pretty good. Can't wait for you guys to hear 'em! I'm sure you'll be able to hear the intensity of that song in the recording. What a song...

Ok that's it...thanks and see you from the throne! -DonBoy