Three months after releasing his "Dont Leave it For Another Day" CD. Simon was back to buisness with an all new song named Suburban Street Serenade. Here are some photos from the Studio that evening . We started work completley from scratch and got the whole song roughly done in the 4 hour session excluding vocals.
It all begins from here, maybe the start of a superb album. Simon records and plays the midi drums first on a synth, then the strings and sampled bass guitar where I operated the PC using music software to record the midi data into.
Up there Cazaly, show me how its done!
After all the midi data has been done, quantized, etc. We do the guitar work.
Simon plucks away on his Gibson.
Simon recording guitar.
Simon checks the computer screen while I do all the editing, correction of mistakes, deleting, copying, pasting, via his instructions etc.
Jock geting the right guitar sound through some sort of a simulator.
I look at the main mix desk as Si (behind me) is recording.
I patiently wait as Simon plays away, the noise inside the studio when Si visits is usually deafening. But we all love loud music.
Adjusting volume levels of the main mix.
After Simon has done recording, I usually edit mistakes, fix volume levels, usually under his instructions.