Been working on a new discoy / funk track recently, and Ben came by last night to put down some bass guitar. The track is building up nicely, it started as quite a housey groove with electronic drums and bass which have now been replaced with more live sounding drums (albeit sampled) and live bass.
The track’s at around 130 bpm, which for us is very very fast ; )
We were originally using Ben’s bass pod to record but after a couple of hours of trial recordings we decided we were getting a much cleaner sound going straight through the desk. So that’s what we did and processing / compression / amp fx will be added later.
We were very excited when Annie Whitehead agreed to pop in and record some trombone over the groove, she’s also recorded some great lines on a slower track we’re working on. Nia’s added some vocal melody, but hasn’t clicked with lyrics yet.
Hooking up with a top-notch engineer next week to play through our mixes, and will be posting new material soon.
Cities Of Foam 