Day 2 -- Call it a wrap -- officially

If you read Jim's last blog you know that him and Dan were done today at 3pm. Well, it is midnight and I just got home. We moved from the studio in Greenpoint to the one we will now be using for the rest of the time in Williamsburg.

The first hour (at least) we spent testing microphones to try to get the best one for my voice and setting the levels. You wouldn't believe all of the subtle differences that exist within microphones.

Then we started tracking vocals. We did "There She Was" which vocally is a pretty steady song. Then we started working on, what I think, is the toughest song, "Brazilian Eyes." Whoever wrote the melody for that song is an asshole. They did so with a lot of vocal swings from high to low and back again. We spent A LOT of time on it because we wanted to nail the tough parts. Jason also spent a lot of time working with me on "smoothing out" my vocals to try to eliminate some the natural twang in my voice that doesn't sound so great in a recording environment.

We got the first half of the song done and then called it quits about 9:30. Jason and I got dinner and talked about our schedule for the next 2 days. Now I'm going to pass out and get ready to do it tomorrow. Luckily I get to sleep a little bit tomorrow. We won't start working until the afternoon so Jason has time to do some editting on the other songs we have left to track guitars and vocals.

OK, folks. Lots of love...

Scott