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So we brought back a CD of the drums and a rough mix of the other stuff for the bass player and others to hear so they could be ready to come down and mix their parts for God Came (our new Christmas CD)… and we had a copy in hand to give to our bass player at church on Sunday.

That’s when it got crazy!

Found out he could not do the Tuesday that we tenatively scheduled for him (tomorrow…) in fact, he could not do ANYTHING this week!!! Unfortunately, we have to have the bass done this week to meet many other deadlines.

So we had a problem. 🙂

Well, he offered to do it TODAY (Sunday, I mean…) I thought… don’t you need to hear this nice CD I made for you? 🙂 He said it was the only day he could do it… so we went.

Oh wait… we need the studio engineer!

Called him… he was busy all day… BUT, he could come over and get us set up and we could do it! 🙂 I asked our guitar player if he wanted to come help with that… but he too was busy… so… away we went.

We got set up around 4:00 or so and just started hammerin’ away at the songs. Ben (the bass player) did awesome! I had fun messin with the buttons… and in the end, we have 10 great tracks of bass and drums! We closed up shop around 11:45pm. Not bad for under 8 hours! 🙂

So, this week we will finish the guitar, add electric guitar and perhaps some keys (there is a cool synthesizer intro to Joy To The World… wait till you hear it!!) 🙂 And the following week we add the vocals and the other finishing touches, and then we start mixing it! Whoohoooo!!!

(Mixing, by the way, is where we put all the tracks together so they sound like one unit, rather than a bunch of individual instruments.. very cool…)

Planning to have the CD in early October… plenty of time for everyone to get some Christmas gifts for friends and family. 🙂

After an intense weekend in a couple studios… I am very excited about the project, and just wanted to share that with ya.

More blogifying later. 🙂