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A Recording Blog – part 1 |
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Big news in EF land – we have a cast, a show, and I’ve started the recording process.
We finalised our cast a couple of weeks ago, and I’m thrilled to welcome Lisa Sontag, and Alex Jenkins, to join workshop alumni Andre Eikmeier and Abbie Cardwell as the Everything's Fucked cast
After a couple of weeks of finalising script, keys with the cast, pre-production, stemming each track off to audio, and madly charting, I have started the massive process of recording the EF soundtrack. We began on the 12th of Feb, with legendary drummer Glenn Wilson. Glenn has played on SCAM and The Pink Files, and it was great to get him back in the studio. A great player and a great guy. We spent a week on the drums, and they sound wicked.
We were joined by another SCAM alumni, Cameron Undy at the end of the week to record a few songs with bass and drums together. For me finally hearing On the Bus played live, rather than the programmed version was really exciting and worth all the work it has taken to get this show up. We’re recording more bass in the next couple of days, so the “engine” of the score should soon be complete.
Of course, any studio experience would not be the same with out Dodgy Bob Scott at the helm. I’ve known Bob for about as long as I’ve been in Sydney. In that time it’s been an honour to work with Bob and watch him become one of the countries leading freelance engineers. He’s one of my best friends, and I couldn’t imagine doing EF without him. You can visit his site at Dodgy Sound
We’ve also been joined by Chris Irvine, who as an up and coming mixer and engineer himself, is assisting on Pro Tools, operations and engineering. Chris is another guy I reckon you’ll hear more of in the next few years. He played us some of his mixes the other night and they sounded great.
For me, I’m just trying to stay ahead on the charts, and organise the players, studios, and engineers to be at the same place at the same time. And, as always, I’m trying to make a living as well, so while this is a really exciting time, it’s hard work.
Still, couldn’t be happier as we get closer to having this piece of music realised, after a lot of years of trying to get it there. It’s funny – I thought it’d be more emotional in some ways, but I guess having to just concentrate on each small step has removed some of that. That said, it has been emotional recording the Finale, and On the Bus, and heaps of others. It’s going to sound fucking great – just got to keep at it.
Cheers
Sean
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