After laying down the guitar and bass tracks, the next thing was to lay down the vocals. I met up with Shane on Wednesday to do just that. Shane added some slight effects to the guitars and finished the first mix of the tracks.

The first thing we did was listen to the songs and made some adjustments to the electric guitar. Shane cleaned up the sound of the guitar removing a lot of the noise from my single coils, but if you know me, you know I love the noise. Ultimately, we removed almost all of the effects to get a pure raw tube amp sound that I love when I’m performing. One of my goals when doing this record is to get that raw sound, that raw emotion. Whether it is electric or solo acoustic, I try to put that raw emotion into every one of my shows and I want that conveyed in these songs.

We spent most of the 3 hours working on “Before”. We edited the backing tracks and then I went into the booth. It took a couple takes, but by the end of the night, I was really happy with the sound. We added a few layers to the voice to fill the chorus.

Finally, Shane and I layed down the first set of vocals for “One Step”. Next week, we will be reviewing our work, laying down the final vocals for “One Step” and then beginning to work on “Forgive”. All in all, the demo is coming along great and I can’t wait until I can share it with everyone.

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