"Yessuh, they're a fine bunch a boys. They sang in the yonder can and skeedadled."

"Hey mister! I don't mean to be tellin' tales out of school, but there's a feller in there that'll pay you ten dollars if you sing into his can."

"These boys is not white! These boys is not white! They ain't even old timey!"

-Assorted Characters from O Brother Where Art Thou?

Yesterday our little band had the opportunity to record at the Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis, MN (Across the street from this place). A friend of a friend is going to school there and needed a guinea pig for his project. Well we were it! It meant four hours of FREE studio time for us to crank out some songs.

They recorded us on this great big 36-channel Digidesign system.

I pretended to know what I was doing, but...

Really it was these guys who were the masterminds.

I had no idea that recording involved so much time sitting around,
waiting for the techs to get the levels right.

Eventually we got to play.

While they were setting up to do the vocal tracks,
I took some photos of the guitars.

Here are some shots of the singers setting up in the isolation booth:

This is a poor-quality video I shot of the singers laying down a vocal track. You cannot hear the instrument playback that they were singing along to.

And when we exited the studio,
the Minneapolis skyline greeted us!

Stay tuned for when we get our songs back from production.

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