Town Monster tracking continues and a special surprise guest appears!

Each night last week was dedicated to recording vox tracks for the new Town Monster record. We also worked a bit on guitar and that experience was really interesting. There are only about 3 or 4 tracks on the album which feature any guitar, but in each of those, the guitar is a critical element of the track. For live use and on the demo, Nate uses some old digitech (i think) "all in one" effects box thingy. When Bill and I first heard the scratch tracks of it at work on the tune "Silkworm", we were pretty impressed with the tone and overall feel of it. We thought we would go for that sound, but only better on the record, so we spent quite a bit of time messing with the Boogie gear we have, various mic'ing techniques, boxes, etc. Suffice it to say that the $50 FX box sounds 1000 times better for that song than anything we could squeek out of the Mesa. $50 FX box versus $3,500 in Amps and $50 FX box wins! No shame in that. I can't wait to hear from the gearslutz who want to inquire on how we got that incredible tone...

On Friday night, we continued working on the vox tracks and burned off some rough stems to evaluate over the weekend. For where we are at this point in the process, I think we are all pretty thrilled with the sound we are getting. Nate's vocals are so dynamic and inspiring. It is going to be alot of fun to mix.

And then, around 9pm..Sidwell showed up with a special guest...Kate from the Two-Bit Terribles!! I could write a book about the TBT's and our time together but will spare everyone that entire story for now. I will say that Kate has been in Morocco for the past two years and was visiting her sister here in town. Unfortunatley, a recent tragedy with the loss of her brother n law was the catalyst in bringing her here but she is doing well and it was great to see her. We spent some time catching up and we watched the TBT documentary that we filmed a few years back. Good times....even with all of the drama. Anyway, Kate let us know that when she returns to the states in November, they are to have an official "Band Meeting", so I guess we'll see what happens with that.