Well, on Tuesday, Neil set up the new digital recording gear that he purchased.  The new gear looks pretty nice and it will make it easier to mix down each instrument individually again, rather than use the single microphone that we’ve used for the last couple of recordings. 

Personally, I like the idea of making at least slight changes to our recording set up or gear with each new set of recordings.  It’s fun to experiment with the different sounds that can come from recording or playing the music in different ways and it makes each set of recordings unique in their own ways.  It doesn’t have to be something so significant as all new equipment with each recording, but just making slight changes to the sounds can really add a lot when you listen to the sound over time.

I was pretty surprised at how good the Lonely Microphone sessions sounded and they’re actually some of my favorite recordings now.  At first, I was just thinking that they’d be decent enough for us to just listen to for personal purposes but, after listening to them quite a few times, I really like the thick muddy sound that came out of those recordings.  The music sounds alive in a way that can’t be found in multitrack production recordings. 

However, I’m really excited to see how the new recording equipment sounds and explore the different possibilities it offers.  We’ll likely post up the sounds once we get a couple other kinks worked out with sound levels and record this weekend.