Last weekend, Eric and I went to College Ave. Baptist in San Diego to record the pipe organ, timpani, bass drum, and bar chimes. We brought my protools LE rig and ran it along with some of Eric's mic pres (Neve sidecar console and Avalons).This might sound lame to some, but I have dreamed of playing a real pipe organ for quite a while. Playing that thing was SO incredible. It had just been tuned a few days before, and the sheer power of that thing was awe inspiring. Even though we had a fine take of my part, I kept saying "I think I can do it better" just so I could keep playing! I thing the same thing happened to Eric when he was on the pipes. The thought of a building sized, room filling, beautiful behemoth instrument making it on the next EP makes me happy.
Eric and I both played the orchestral percussion, and the Timpani especially brought back memories of High School band. College Ave's sanctuary is epic, and acoustically beautiful and spacious. The bass drum might as well have been called 'the smile machine,' because a smile or laugh followed almost every room shaking syllable uttered from it's mylar and fiber mouth.
All in all, it was a very fun, long, exhausting, but unforgettable and incredible day.
-T.J.
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