Most of the tracking for this record took place over two cold days in early March of 2011 in a warehouse nestled between Cleveland’s Ohio City and Gordon Square districts. We tracked 8 songs the first day and another 4 the next (2 didn’t make the record). Almost all of the bass, guitars and drums were tracked live, together, in a room with a loud and mildly hilarious gospel choir stirring next door. Vocals and overdubs were completed sporadically throughout the next two months. Joe and Josh came and played horns on “The Weight & the Waiting”, Laine sang on “January & Seven”, and a bunch of our friends came in and did gang vocals and drank too many beers and got us sidetracked.
Adam Wagner at Bad Racket Recording Studio did a killer job recording and mixing, and Mark Trewella of Full Circle Mastering in Philly lent us his mastering talents. Somehow it all came together and we ended up with what is now Latitudes and Longitudes. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did making it.
credits
released December 27, 2011
Signals Midwest is:
Maxwell Stern – Vocals, Guitars
Steve Gibson – Drums, Vocals, Trumpet
Loren Shumaker – Bass, Vocals
Jeff Russell – Guitar
Joe Quandt – Saxophones on “The Weight & the Waiting”
Josh Scott – Trombone on “The Weight & the Waiting”
Laine Seliga – Vocals on “January & Seven”
Recorded, produced and engineered by Adam Wagner at Bad Racket Recording Studio in Cleveland, OH
Mastered by Mark Trewella at Full Circle Mastering in Philadelphia, PA
March – June 2011