Studio D

We spent Saturday up in Folschette with the band recording our demo. The studio itself is a cool place, set up in an old farm building in the village. The room has a good sound, as far as I can tell. Yves Ditsch, who was manning the console for the day was very helpful and friendly, we got good coffee and such. Two thumbs up for the facilities and service. We went in to record 4 songs: 'Let's Pop', 'Oceanbound', 'Sunday Driver' and 'Too Much Room'. The drums went down real quick, kudos to Jacques for that, although his playing on Sunday Driver is a bit uneven. We were done so fast that we decided to lay down a fifth track, a cover of 'Psycho Killer' by Talking Heads. However, we hit the big hurdle when recording the bass. [edit] It really is too bad, we got off to such a good start. I decided to put down two rhythm tracks before we left. I was pretty happy with the one I did for Oceanbound and Sunday Driver was okay. (Before anyone accuses me of being too hard on the others and not being as critical towards my own work, I only recorded easy-peasy things that day, we'll see how I will fare with the hard stuff, like the vocals and lead lines...) At least I didn't bring all my stuff along for nothing but on the whole, I was pretty disappointed with what we achieved that day. On the up side, I was really pleased with the sound I got out of my amp (a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe). I used the "clean" channel. With the volume up about half way, I got a nice, well defined, crunchy tone. Too bad I can't have this setup live right now, it's just too loud. I'm looking at attenuators, but I'm not sure if they're worth the investment. After all, I can use the "drive" channel or my DS-1 and get close (kind of). I've been looking at the THD Hot Plates and Bad Cat's 'The Leash'. I hope the shops here in Luxembourg have something. I want to try before I buy. That's one of the downers in living in a small place like this, it's often hard to find the gear you need (want) without resorting to extensive travel or the internet...