Mixing Room

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

SIDECRASH

That's the name of this new band from Davao that i'm helping out right now. A group of young guys who just want to play on and improve their music whilst making an album as well. These guys are fresh grads... so now that they're out of school they want to try their luck in Manila.
The vocalist reminds me of early Spongecola but their music is pop rock ... closer to what the guys of Cueshe plays.
I seldom do live recordings for a whole band because of the tedious process that it involves.
The setting up of the drums and band instruments seem to take forever till you get it right, Plugging the guitars and bass and keyboards with mic for vocal tracks while mic'ing the drums and getting the right mix and balance in the monitors so that the band can record properly does take time. Not to mention the fact that you have to play the music loud enough to inspire a rock band to perform better... Aw my poor monitor speakers.
We are doing 8 more songs out of a 12 song lineup and just doing drums for the next two days before we move on to bass and guitars then keys and finally vocals.
I did finish one song for Chris Cayzer... at least i think that's the correct spelling of his name.
He's a fil-aussie dude who likes Jon Mayer. He even sounds like him at times.
Civ the producer from Star asked me to do a rearangement of a Neocolours song called " Hold On" but as an acoustic band type of arrangement.
I think it's coming out as a soundtrack album for their new soap, if i'm not mistaken.
This one is one of my better arrangements since it's mostly guitar based.
I'm particularly proud of the fact that i played everything on this song.
The song actually sounds like a whole band playing live and not done on my PC
and mixed on a Mac.... hmm not bad if i may say so.
:-)
I'll put pics of the band probably next post
I'm tired time for bed

--MXRR at 1:45 AM
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