Recording WTH#4: Day 5

June 29, 2006
10:30am:   I woke up and surprisingly, Chuck was already awake.  We had some coffee and headed down to the studio.
11:00am: We did some editing on “September Eyes” and “Demons”
12:00pm: We started working on a song entitled, “Phantom Limbs”.  This is one of our more complex pieces, so it took a while.  By [...]

Recording WTH#4: Day 4

June 28, 2006
10:00am: I woke up, had some coffee, and started fiddling around with my guitar amp to prep for recording a few tracks. Unfortunately, I was receiving some sort of French radio station, I think coming from the Line 6 Pod preamp. What a pain in the ass. After a couple of hours trying [...]

Recording WTH#4: Day 3

June 27, 2006
10:00am: I woke up and had some coffee while tying together a bunch of loose regions for the songs we recorded the day before.
11:00am: Chuck woke up and had some coffee and a little food.
11:30am: We decided to re-record the drum intro and the entire bass track for “Phoenix”. Some editing of the [...]

Recording WTH#4: Day 2

June 26, 2006
9:30am: I woke up, got some coffee, read a little and made my way down to the studio.
11:00am (8:00am PDT): Called tech support at Digidesign in an attempt to get the 8 channel preamp to talk to my audio interface. I spoke with a guy named Joel. This was the most helpful tech [...]

Recording WTH#4: Day 1

June 25, 2006
5:30am: Chuck arrives at Logan Airport in Terminal C (Jetblue) after a lovely red-eye flight. Lots of traffic was present when I went to pick him up.
7:00am: After a brief tour of the place, we unload the truck and start assembling the Mapex kit that was purchased for the occasion. [...]

Climate Control

Well, the basement was starting to feel like the swamplands in the summer time…  I decided that the best thing to do to preserve the instruments and equipment down there was to buy a dehumidifier.  
Krissy and I ended up going to Home Depot, as it is pretty close to where she left her car [...]

Countdown…

2 days left until we start recording our next album, as of yet untitled.  Chuck arrives at some ungodly hour on Sunday morning, then the fun begins.  

The Earth

I just started working on a song entitled, "The Earth". I've put the first couple of tracks down (acoustic guitar and scratch vocals). The Fishman pickup sounds pretty nice with the Martin that my parents just brought over from California. They were heading out for a visit, so I asked them to bring back a [...]

The History of WTH (part 28): Planning a Follow-up Album

What are the general rules for making a follow-up album? None really, I guess, although there are some good cookie-cutter examples out there. Anyway, here's what we decided to do:
We wanted to focus in on a particular sound and expand from there. At the time, both Chuck and I were really into Steely Dan, [...]

The History of WTH (part 27): And Along Came Chuck

After the band breakup, WTH went into stasis for a good few months. Toby and Matt kept jamming on occasion, and some spin off projects were developed, including Mr. Jones, a band comprised of Toby Black on drums, Bashiri Jones on vocals, Neil Cane on guitar (later replaced by Garth McGrath), and myself on [...]