Darren Vermaas - Dark Horse Studios - Week 6/7

Well it seems my blog is behind once again, but I am here to update all of the eager readers.  The reason for the delay I'll blame on Spring break, since there was nothing happening clearly there was nothing to post about.  Pre-break was worth mentioning though, so here we go.

I was asked by the staff engineer at Dark Horse to assist once again, which I accepted without hesitation.  Once again the project was produced by Dave Bechtel and the artist was named Leroy who spends his life in Afghanistan working.  The project went on for 4 days, each of which was at least 14 hours.  This was another good experience getting to watch the flow of things and working with some of Nashville's best session players.  It's a bit odd walking through the Nashville airport and seeing the McPherson signature guitar and then realizing you were working with the actual McPherson the four days before.  The highlights were probably watching the session players make something out of nothing, and watching how vocals stacked up into something big and impressive.  Also, Tympani mic techniques.  

Aside from this project I had been sitting in with a band from CT called Bronze Radio Return.  I did a lot of the set up for this project as well as a bit of patching for them here and there.  When they arrived I offered up my 53 Fender Deluxe amp which they ended up using on quite a few of their songs.  Their myspace has a few videos from their two weeks in studio that are worth looking at.  There album will definitely be worth picking up when it's done.  

www.myspace.com/bronzeradioreturn

This week we put in a new Argosy desk for the new C24 console that was purchased and we are all getting our hands on the new Pro Tools 8. Reliant K was in the studio for three days as well.  Good times.  Time to get back to work.

Darren