A.J. – Andrew Jacobs

musician, producer, engineer, mixer

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another. - Ram Dass

Archive for the 'recording' Category

backing vocals

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

The Stinging Nettles have given me carte blanche to record my backing vocals for the record. Which is nice as I can do it when I have the time and also take my time to get them right. So far, so good.
Been spending a lot of time in the studio lately. Splitting my time between [...]

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Reason Left Town EP

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Reason Left Town have released their debut EP. John Huebner and I worked on these songs a few months back. John tracked (with some slight assistance from me) and mixed. I mastered it. You can check out all of the tracks on the band’s myspace page. The EP is 3 songs and sells for $5. [...]

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music posted

Friday, August 15th, 2008

I’ve posted some music from my old band Altercana on the Music page. Just sayin’

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Stinging Nettles: Recording elec. guitars

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Who said this wasn’t gonna be a blog?! Anyway, I’ll continue with the recording of the Stinging Nettles first full length record. Sunday afternoon as the drums were finished we decided to set up to do the first round of guitars. We had Monday evening booked as well to finish up.

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Stinging Nettles – recording drums

Monday, August 11th, 2008

The weekend in revue: Well, we managed to get 11 drum tracks done this weekend and even start some guitars. The drums are officially done as we have 3 tracks from a previous recording we’re going to use. Friday night we started by tuning the drums, setting up microphones, and getting sounds and levels. Everything [...]

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