After Jason's visit, I've finally found the inspiration and desire to blow the dust off of some old recordings that Jason and I started about 6 years ago and start laying down some drum tracks to them. The album is painfully close to being done, but it still may be luck to get it done before the end of the year. Part of the reason it has taken us so long to finally get to the stage of getting it done is that we debated back and forth on what method to record us. For example, did we want to go to a "professional studio" and put up a bunch of cash in order to get a "perfect recording", if there is such a thing; or did we want to invest in pro tools computer recording software and afford us the opportunity to have unlimited tracks for recording, thus being able to double and triple track and layer guitars and vocals for a really strong recording with power and clarity? The last option was to just use my old Yamaha 8 track and be limitied to only 8 total tracks per song, which really limits the ability to get a really great sounding record, and leaves a lot to be desired. But alas, I have decided to just do it this way for now and at least have SOMETHING for people to hear, and maybe someday down the road we can take our best songs from our entire songwriting and recording careers and take that to a pro studio to get a really great recording. But anyway, that's where we are at right now. I think I should be finished with all my recordings in a couple of months, and then maybe Jason can fly up and finish his vocals and bass tracks and we will just have to mix down after that and burn to CD and call it an album.
