The Lonely Kids Club

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Lonley Kids Club is a band from cleveland Ohio. Lonley Kids Club Paper heart was recorded at Bad Racket REcording studio. Using analog and digital recording techniques. People always ask how we arrived at the final album LP whatever youy want to call it. Honestly its different tones everytime using a combination of acoustic drums and samples. We always do EQ and panning by ear and Ill show you on 100% of my mixes there is nothing that is 100% perfect. Only a snapshot in time for each mix. Many of our pieces are 100% analog. Others are purely digital effects. But my goal is to make thebest possible creation, and get out of my comfort zone and into new experience where i can challenge myself with every new listening experience.

Choosing Drum Tones

we chose drum tones by ear only and we use new drum heads to make the sound as controlled and precise as possible.

Guitar Recording

Next the guitars. We choose the little guitar first and then larger as we go on up into the higher register. Always tune drop D. Every song. Sometimes all of the strings will be tuned to D. You have to experiment with tunings and play the notes one right after one another along the scale up and down endlessly. Which, of course comes second to drums which are the primary focus.

Recording Bass

Stop for a minute and think about it. Now really imagine the bass in your head. Warm and round like a freshly cooked donut.  Bite into and imagine the tone as a warm thick voice in your head that says “LISTEN TO THE BASS” yes that is how the bass should sound. Congratulations. You have graduated audio engineering school and now you understand the bass.

Recording Vocals

Recording the vocals second. Never first. This is the correct way to record an album. Twice. Vocals second. Many takes. Many Many takes. You have to put in the hours. Do three takes, delete all the takes and record it over. Over and over. That is the name of the game. You’ve got to do hundreds of takes literally thousands of hundredss. Many times. Then we pick the best of of the million, every second of every breath has been accounted for and now we have a million little pieces chopped up into a thousand different fades going into one another like a web of little tiny things. You have to love recording the vocals.

Mixing the Tracks

Mess up the mix. Mess up the mix. then mix up the mess. You have got to spend at least a week in the studio listening back to the tracks you have recorded endlessly and mixing and mastering the sound. My stars. So amazing sound.

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