Practicing / Practising

Our last practice was showing signs of cohesion. All four of us were there, and we did a few selected covers and originals. I thought the originals sounded very strong, and were fun to play. Some of the covers were also strong, others need lots of timing and coordination work. Did not yet start using the midi to full effect as an accompagnying tool.

Regarding the playing, we need to hold back a bit, to be sensitive to the dynamic range and the tempo. It is the art of listening while you play. We are getting there.

Still a few technical glitches, amps distorting, and not enough feeds. Hoping to go this week with Alain and set things up in a standard way, using the console. Will bring along two guitar amps, Alain's bass amp, and sundry smaller amps as monitors.

Also have decided to record guitars more or less wet. This means with effects that have to do with the guitar, fuzz, sustain, and such. Reverb and other ambience effects can be added later. Echo depends. Will have to find a balance, but I feel I need the effect control to record properly.