ART of FLYing/BACK in the STUDIO

ART of FLYing has started recording AGAIN. Recording OVER the songs that were rejected from though the light seem small: (2" tape is EXPENSIVE)---making up songs to FIT. Guitar sounds & piano sounds --sounding for new songs--seeing what will take shape.

ALSO: we are recording a song especially written for the Waghaal's 25th anniversary Compilation Record. All songs about RECORDS--the working title: JUMP IN THE RECORD (song for Fred Maessen about records). This release should appear by summer 2010.

Vermont Joy parade

15 new TRACKS in 2 days!
Everybody sang a tune,

Bennie & Devin will return to mix
next week. 12" vinyl
by December.
Hopefully a link to a whole set of
studio pictures, up on Flickr-as
soon as how to UPload
I can figger.

LarrY YES visits the BARN

While in town for SUANFEST#10
Larry YES stops by for a BATH & a
LISTEN.
"SEAL in the SUNSHINE," rough-mixes
sound extra FINE on the BIG REDs's.
Look for it on VINYL sometime/somewhere
SOON.
As usual we chatted it UP:
When will you & yr band THE RUCKUS, come out to the BARN
& make a record?

nowMIXing

ART of FLYing is NOW mixing--& all of FEBruary...final touches on new record:
thoughthelightseemsmall. Still some singing left to find--a horn &/or 2...some
final visitors & hearings, big&small. Happy New YEAR!!

BOOKingS

the BARN recorder is AVAILABLE for recording sessions. PLEASE call (575)586-2132
or e-mail cosmoclown2002@yahoo.com for price/availability.

GEARs LIsT

QUAD EIGHT (westar) PRO-TO-TYPE aka (SARASWATI)
36 IN-LINE channels 31 Q-8 differential MIC pres.
MCI 2" 16-track w/ AUTO-LOCATOR 2
STUDER b67 1/4" 2-track
tascam DA-30 mk-2 DAT
MONITORS: ALTEC 604 BIG REDs
(w/MASTERing LAB crossovers);
& GENELEC 1029's
MAIN ROOM 20' x 30' w/20' ceilings
extra pres:
API 312 -4
telefunken v72 -3
outboard:
NEVE 2254/e
compressor/limiter -3
iTi parametric -1
EMT plate reverb -1
ibanez analog delays -2
ROLAND tape echo -1
mics:
AKG c12a -1
AKG c61 -3
AKG 414 -1
neumann km53 -2
shure 57's & 58's

guitars, amps,
electric piano, upright
piano, trumpets,
vibes...

thanks & PREs

Somewhere around 1985 I saw an ad in a San Francisco paper: "WANTED: wood-floor work in exchange for recording equipment." Wonder! Brief disbelief? Reader & Reading material (re?)UNITE. A drive to the hills of Berkeley, California to meet the infamous Dan Alexander. Before boxes of WINE stacked HIGH (a recent BARTER: booze to record BLUES band); a deal is made & a strange & mysterious friendship is formed. Many dirty hours later the goods arrive: 4 API pre-amps (what?) & 2 Neumann microphones. Plug the microphone into the pre-amp, send the pre-amp straight to the tape-deck (an Otari 50-50 8-track), NO EQ, NO mixing board!!
Over the years there would be many trips to Dan's house: microphones, compressors, a Studer 2-track, an EMT plate-reverb, the BIG REDS; all would be carted back to QUESTA. Hippies (as Dan called us) worked away at basements & staircases & doorways while Dan found us gears to "make my voice sound good!" (the plate), or something to mix down to other than a DAT, (the Studer b67). The studio filled up slowly. Every piece with a sweet story. Like that kid with the magic beans...