So today we took a trip up to Norman Ave in Brooklyn to meet with a recording engineer and check out his facilities. After spending way too long in molasses-like traffic on the BQE, we arrived, parked and walked right past the place we were looking for.
After we finally found it, we met Rich, who seems like a genuinely cool guy. We clicked on a lot of our musical sensibilities and ideas right away. The studio is very small, but you can tell he put a lot of love into it.
We chatted a bit about mics, drum sounds, guitar tone, and how we would like to go about tracking. Both Brandon and I got a really good vibe off this guy. We booked three days in February at a very good monetary rate.
Shiz just got real.
Next step: more preproduction, rehearsals, booking additional musicians, and tightening the screws.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Making the Album
I had a thought. Most blogs have a theme. Mine has pretty much nothing. What can I do? Let's give it a theme.
Here it is folks, an actual reason to perhaps, maybe, read this blog! I'm going to start posting about the process of getting my debut record make! Well, not MY record exactly, but the record I'm going to be recording with my buddy Brandon Warren.
Some of you may have seen us play in Corning at the Snooty Pig, or in PA, or in NYC at the Back Fence. Most of you have probably never heard us play, but we've been churning out music together since about 2005. Way back then we were two musicians in a college band still learning how to not suck. Without breaking my arm, I will pat myself on the back and say that individually, we all had a good amount of talent; we just kinda had no direction or discipline as a group.
Fast foward a few years, and Brandon and I decide to strike out on our own. The college band breaks up after recording a pretty mediocre CD that we never released, and Brandon moves to NYC. All this time, he's writing up a storm. Song after song (in between Phillies games, of course) and I venture up to the North Country of NY State for a teaching job.
We play together once or twice a month, and communicate often via email. We bounce song ideas off one another for a couple of years. We play a few shows where we include these original tunes, but we mostly do covers 'cause it's easier for people to drink and party to songs they've heard before. But we notice something: When we play our tunes...people actually like them! We get compliments! From strangers! It's awesome! Finally some validation. Then this happens:
"Where can I get your CD?"
....uuuh...we...don't...have one. D'OH! Ok, so admittedly, this is a bad thing. It's hard to promote oneself when one has no merchandise that people can take home and listen to endlessly. So we decided, hell, let's save up some money and make a record. A record record record (That Thing You Do reference for all you uncouth folks).
So we're off. We've somehow managed to narrow a list of 20 tunes down to 5 that we think will best represent what our sound is. We've been talking to recording studios, we've been working on some preproduction, and we are committed to this.
To be conintued.....
Here it is folks, an actual reason to perhaps, maybe, read this blog! I'm going to start posting about the process of getting my debut record make! Well, not MY record exactly, but the record I'm going to be recording with my buddy Brandon Warren.
Some of you may have seen us play in Corning at the Snooty Pig, or in PA, or in NYC at the Back Fence. Most of you have probably never heard us play, but we've been churning out music together since about 2005. Way back then we were two musicians in a college band still learning how to not suck. Without breaking my arm, I will pat myself on the back and say that individually, we all had a good amount of talent; we just kinda had no direction or discipline as a group.
Fast foward a few years, and Brandon and I decide to strike out on our own. The college band breaks up after recording a pretty mediocre CD that we never released, and Brandon moves to NYC. All this time, he's writing up a storm. Song after song (in between Phillies games, of course) and I venture up to the North Country of NY State for a teaching job.
We play together once or twice a month, and communicate often via email. We bounce song ideas off one another for a couple of years. We play a few shows where we include these original tunes, but we mostly do covers 'cause it's easier for people to drink and party to songs they've heard before. But we notice something: When we play our tunes...people actually like them! We get compliments! From strangers! It's awesome! Finally some validation. Then this happens:
"Where can I get your CD?"
....uuuh...we...don't...have one. D'OH! Ok, so admittedly, this is a bad thing. It's hard to promote oneself when one has no merchandise that people can take home and listen to endlessly. So we decided, hell, let's save up some money and make a record. A record record record (That Thing You Do reference for all you uncouth folks).
So we're off. We've somehow managed to narrow a list of 20 tunes down to 5 that we think will best represent what our sound is. We've been talking to recording studios, we've been working on some preproduction, and we are committed to this.
To be conintued.....
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
New Layout
So ScottTofte.com has been slightly redesigned, and I'm still looking to tweak it a bit further. I'm trying to divide it into three distinct sections: Music, Art, and the Blog.
All the social internetty podcasty stuff will be taken care of on the blog. The other parts are pretty self explanitory.
I am also going to make an effort to pontificate more on subjects that interest me in an attempt to actually make use of this whole blog thing.
All the social internetty podcasty stuff will be taken care of on the blog. The other parts are pretty self explanitory.
I am also going to make an effort to pontificate more on subjects that interest me in an attempt to actually make use of this whole blog thing.
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