The Terrortones are making an album
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 5:09 am
For the last 3 days Dick Venom & The Terrortones have been in the studio recording songs for their first full-length album release. We went back to JT Soar in Nottingham (UK) where we recorded our last EP The MonsterPussy Sessions because we liked the relaxed vibe and were extremely pleased with the previous results. This time though it was being recorded on the computer rather than 24 track analogue tape as we wanted to be a bit more ambitious with the mix and need the automation the computer method offers at mix down. We were still tracking through the ex-Iron Maiden AMC desk though!
Important things first - here's the guitars and amps being used:
You'll probably all recognise the Hallmark Wingbat. The Mosrite influenced baritone is a Harley Benton (Thomann's own brand) and AFAICS a rebadged version of the Eastwood Sidejack DLX Baritone with a couple of cosmetic differences. Thomann were recently selling them off at £65 and I couldn't resist!
And some basses:
The view from the drum kit:
And finally getting down to actually recording some songs:
Listening to the playback with Phil the engineer:
And Mr Venom working out that all-important Glockenspiel part:
We ended up getting 14 songs recorded for the album plus a few alternative versions to be hopefully used as singles. That was accomplished by pretty much recording everything live with a few guitar, vocal, theremin and percussion overdubs.
Mixing takes place in a few weeks time, and we hope to have the album out on vinyl and download later in the year.
Watch this space!
Important things first - here's the guitars and amps being used:
You'll probably all recognise the Hallmark Wingbat. The Mosrite influenced baritone is a Harley Benton (Thomann's own brand) and AFAICS a rebadged version of the Eastwood Sidejack DLX Baritone with a couple of cosmetic differences. Thomann were recently selling them off at £65 and I couldn't resist!
And some basses:
The view from the drum kit:
And finally getting down to actually recording some songs:
Listening to the playback with Phil the engineer:
And Mr Venom working out that all-important Glockenspiel part:
We ended up getting 14 songs recorded for the album plus a few alternative versions to be hopefully used as singles. That was accomplished by pretty much recording everything live with a few guitar, vocal, theremin and percussion overdubs.
Mixing takes place in a few weeks time, and we hope to have the album out on vinyl and download later in the year.
Watch this space!