I recorded in a different bigtime studio yesterday.
https://www.wireroadstudios.com/
This place was serious. It was like a hotel in there, they had staff and interns and showers and catering...the whole spread. This is the kind of place where major film scores happen and tv productions might do voice-over work. And of course, Beyonce records there. Her omnipotent presence is everywhere in Houston. Lol. Bands record there too, but I've never even heard of this place and it's right in my town. This place is so high-budget I've never even heard of it. Local nobody bands aren't booking this place. I was looking at their huge roster of bands that have worked there...nothing I've ever heard of. Lots of country bands and rappers and blues acts and stuff like that. I'm thinking this is a place for the super-slick mega-produced modern radio type sound.
Anyway, why the fuck was I there? One of my bands was selected to be on this compilation album covering
Really Red, an old school original Houston punk band. Jello Biafra has re-released their original recordings and there is a renewed interest in this first-wave band from Houston, so someone thought "let's get bands to record covers of their songs for a compilation". I don't know who's idea this was or who is paying for it, but there we were in this major studio.
We set up live in Studio A - a large live room. The drums were in the live room, the amps were iso rooms...not booths...actual isolation rooms. These iso rooms were the size of a NYC apartment. There was also a fucking grand piano in the same iso room my amp was in. That's how big these iso rooms are. Separating my iso room from the live room was a triple-level sliding glass door that I'm pretty certain you couldn't break with a sledgehammer. This door took both hands and little help from your bodyweight and gravity to slide closed. My amp, as always, was full roar and with that door closed it was little more than a whisper outside the iso room. The other guys set their amps int he other iso rooms and I couldn't hear them at all without headphones. So drums live in the live room, amps in iso rooms, we tracked live with headphones in the live room. We did five takes and kept #4. That was that. No punch-ins, no overdubs. Then the singer laid down his vocals in one of the iso rooms and we were done. I didn't stick around long, I needed to get back home to watch my Saints beat the stupid Cowboys.
I took a little dumb video of the facility.
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