A Tedious Process

Our move to Colorado has really been a three month process and I've had enough work that I haven't been able to temporarily shut down operations! The show must go on and in hindsight I find it humorous the places I found myself editing tracks and comping vocals. Check out a few of them!!

For the first time since our college days at Belmont I got to work with Matt Reviere, an incredible guitar  player on a record from Cross to Crown Ministries. Much of my producing these days is done long distance which has major pro's and a few cons. My interaction with studio players these days looks like this. Yes. This is conversation via FaceTime. Thank you Steve Jobs.

One of the biggest benefits of tracking parts long distance is that it can be a more cost effective way to produce a record with Nashville studio players. They don't have to travel to me and I don't have to travel to Nashville and we achieve a quality product similar to what we would in a Nashville studio. The downside is flexibility, but thanks to my good friends who will take a long distance studio gig from me they are always willing to re-track parts that aren't exactly what I had in mind. We share files over DropBox and I do a bunch of editing!

Tracking this way does make me miss the chemistry and camaraderie of tracking and hanging out in the studio with excellent musicians, but we get to work in our personal studios on our time. Pretty neat deal.