By Chris Moore:
Somewhere in this process, I’ve lost a couple of days in my online journal. Thus, here I am to fill in the gaps. I don’t have full details or exact dates, but Mike came over one night (in April? during my school break?) for the first bass track overdub of the album. Although he was here for a couple hours, we only worked on one song: “No Lights, No Sound.” This may not sound like what you’d call progress, but we were thrilled. We experimented with bass sounds (i.e. through pedal, through amp, directly into laptop), Mike developed a tastefully simple but memorable bass line, and I managed to finally play it right.
This was a very enjoyable night… so much so that I forgot to write it down in the logs entirely. It was a tease, though, in some respects, considering that school and grading were still on my mind and needed to become the priority shortly after he left.
Chris plays bass?
Another lost and notable day — and one which was also a tease — came shortly after. On Thursday, April 21st, I brought the master tracks for mixing at Fusco Theatre. Mike finagled the hookup between my laptop and the main (and very sizable) speakers. Then, we ran through all twelve tracks, discussed the overall sound, and in the end, each received the Mike Fusco mixing treatment.
This post is long in coming. I’ve post-dated it to April 22nd for posterity’s sake, although I’m writing it months later in July. As a final note regarding continuity, the picture above was taken during the “day sixteen” session on July 2nd, but it seemed appropriate here considering day fourteen was the first all-bass track session.
