North - Session #3 - 14th October 2012

Session times: 12:00pm-5:30pm

This was supposed to be the final drum session for North's album.  It remains to be seen if we need another one.  This was the first full session with my new desk, the Behringer X32 and it performed very well, even though there were a few times where I couldn't quite remember which buttons to press.

There were a couple of songs that needed a few bits to add to the previous sessions recordings and one which required a completely new take (Mr Big Man) due to a microphone malfunction which wasn't noticed until after we had finished last time, and one we just weren't happy with last time (Your Hand).  In addition, we also recorded  I Won't Listen, Footprints in the Snow (A christmas song !), Slide Away and The One.

Your Hand

This was the third attempt at this song.  Jack had to leave early, so Wayne, Rebecca and George played this song without bass to a click.  The drums are played with soft beaters and to try and get the levels right, George had to play the snare (without snare on), and toms on one take, then we added the cymbals on another take and then the bass drum on another.  In places the drums aren't quite in time, but I'll try and sort them out before the next session.  The third chorus is the climax of this song and George tried to follow the click track while playing with proper sticks, but we couldn't get the take required, so after trying for about an 90 minutes, we decided it was getting too late, we were getting tired and we'd have to revisit this track on another occasion.

Wayne mentioned they had a couple of acoustic numbers they also wanted to record on subsequent sessions, and in total should be about an hours worth of music.  After the band had gone, I added up all the track times and it came to ....41 minutes.  Unless the last 2 tunes are about 10 minutes each, I think we're a bit short of the our target.