Dave Forrester, Creeping Time’s drummer, took his turn at producing the latest song for the upcoming album. His main idea was to record a bluegrass style song without drums. And therefore he didn’t have to come to the session, either. Was that some sort of trick to get out of it, or is it a purely genius move to improve the overall sounds of the album? You be the judge.

Anyway, for the session we brought in a few extras to help out. Matt Heron sacrificed his health and volunteered to add a double-fiddle while Johnny Fitzpatrick supplied some banjo. With Ken unable to attend, we still ended up getting a nice set of base-tracks. Though bluegrassy in instrumentation, any track where Kjell cuts loose on the fiddle will always have a signature that is undefineable.

We tried standing around an omni-pattern condenser supplemented with two small diaphragm condensers to get a stereo image. But it ended up sounding better having the large diaphragm condenser focus on guitar, mandolin and vocals while the small condensers captured the details on the banjo and fiddles.

Nice work, boys! I hope you’re feeling better, Matt.

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