We had the opportunity this week to go back into the recording studio for a surprise single. We're so close to announcing release dates, I can't wait to share this music with you all!!!!
In the last 6 months I've now recorded at 3 different studios in New York City. The first was Big Orange Sheep in Industry City (Brooklyn) with the entire band. Sadly since our recording, Big Orange Sheep has closed its doors. We are so fortunate to have recorded there. Their piano (a Fazioli) is still one of the best pianos I've ever heard and our engineer MP captured it beautifully in the recording.
Photo credit: Vick Krishna
When we met with MP the first decision we had to make was how we wanted to record all the musicians. We chose to capture each player with isolation booths. Each musician had their own room so that our engineer could isolate and put the voice, bass, piano, and percussion on individual tracks. If we all had recorded in the same room MP wouldn't have been able to make the same sort of adjustments and edits. We wanted our album to have a clean and crisp sound to it. We later added more percussion that Taka wouldn't have been able to do in one take, and I preferred to be able to return to the studio for more vocal dubbing so that my voice could stay fresh throughout the entire recording.
Our other two studios CASP recorded in were 2nd Story Sound and Renaissance Recording, both in Manhattan. These two spaces were perfect for the vocal dubs. The next two clips are from Renaissance.
Any areas of the songs that could be a little tighter, maybe more whispery or fixing some diction issues were able to be addressed because we went back into the studio post the band recording.
I hope you enjoyed this behind the scenes look at recording the Cuban Art Song Projects first album!
Abrazos,
Isabella