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Hello,

We embarked on our DIY journey this past Monday by visiting our friend, Derek at a Mac repair shop. He was kind enough to let us set up our mobile recording equipment and lay down groundwork for the song "Never Mind It's Complicated" amongst the shelves of hard drives, monitors and power supplies. Although not designed for optimal acoustic sound, the back room had some unique characteristics like high ceilings with exposed insulation with lots of soundwave-diffusing hardware items along the walls and on the repair benches. It worked out great for our recording.

Warning: techie time. We decided to use the "Glyn Johns" 3-microphone technique on drums made famous on many Led Zeppelin recordings. It took a little tweaking, but I really liked the way it ended up making the drums sound more real than other close-mic techniques. Sometimes "real" isn't the desired result as opposed to "big" - but for this particular song I thought it was appropriate.

We have much more to do on this song, and hope to give you a taste soon. We'll link you to an mp3 as soon as a presentable mix is ready.

Next week we'll be tracking a second tune at a second location. Then after that a third song at a third location (and so on). As I had mentioned in a previous entry, we definitely want to hear from you if you think you have a great place for Deepest Darkest to record. Sometimes a quirky nook can be just as cool as a perfect-sounding space because of the character it adds. We've lined up several locations, but we still need a few more to complete the project. So far I haven't heard from anyone at the Space Needle, but they have my contact info.

May your dreams be free of cobras,
-Nate
 

Dearest Friends,

I've been contemplating for quite a while now how best to tackle the recording of the Deepest Darkest tunes. With money at the heart of most everyone's problems these days I believe that a low-cost do-it-yourself solution might be the most appropriate for our group. The band collectively has the equipment and technical know-how to pull this off. Our equipment is mobile, and can be set up anywhere that has power outlets.

This brings me to my idea. Rather than try to find a studio space to record the entire album, I want to record each song somewhere new. Maybe it's in a basement or bedroom in a house. Maybe outside in a vineyard. Maybe a barn. Maybe an old movie theater. Maybe a Macy's lingerie department. Maybe Spartacus. Maybe your mom's house. Okay I'll stop with that.

The question is then posed to you:  do you know of and have access to a place where you would like a Deepest Darkest song recorded? I want the locations to be a surprise until the record is released, so email me from the contact page on this site with your suggestion. You and I can discuss it and decide if your location idea will work for everyone. I'm excited about this possibilities. Hope you are too. And don't worry, pants are always optional with our band.

Nate

Everybody seems to be jumping ship from MySpace to Facebook. We don't favor one over the other, but Facebook is pretty well done. If you're on Facebook, become a fan of Deepest Darkest by clicking here.

If you're reading this in time we hope to see you tonight at Rotture. It will be Jared's last show on drums before moving to Madrid, Spain. We're sad to see him go, so we want to send him off properly. Joining us will be Jaycob Van Auken on guitar, with Nat sliding over to bass. It will be a fun night of rock.
-N8