Imagine you’re walking down the street, there’s a guy out there playing saxophone and his buddy is banging away on a conga drum. How would you record that? Would the musicians feel the same way playing indoors under hundreds of thousands of dollars of recording equipment? Wouldn’t that feeling alone change how they sound? What if you recorded them separate?
We like to record “live” to capture the emotion of a performance and the connection that happens between the players. The studio isn’t that pretty, you’re not gonna break anything unless you try to and It’ll feel more like your playing a set at the Beachland Ballroom than a cocktail party for the statehouse. We do a lot of overdubbing and solo tracking too, but only if you want that sound.