Drums!

Hey Cats and Crows fans!

Exciting news from our camp today: Andy Cooper and I are finally recording drums for our upcoming album, This Time Will Pass Anyway 🎉

We’ve hired out Ruthin Football Club’s function room and clubhouse, and got Andy’s kit all set up. It’s sounding amazing.

Ironically, this is the second time we’ve recorded drums for this album. The first time, we did it at Andy’s home studio. Fast forward about ten days, and I finally had some time to start getting the tracks mixed and levelled. To my absolute horror, I discovered that for all but one song, I’d managed to sum loads of channels together on the input side of things. Absolutely devastated!

For those of you who don’t know, that basically means I’d combined two or more different microphone signals on the way in to my recording software, so they could never be separated. It’s like trying to un-bake a cake. Once those ingredients are combined, there is quite literally nothing you can do.

Huge shout-out to my friend Skeet, who very kindly offered to try and salvage the tracks for me 🙏🙂

Anyway, we’re back, we’ve got the kit set up, we’ve doubled down on the tracks and we’re treating this like an omen. They sounded amazing in Andy’s home studio, but today they sound even better. I’ve double checked them all too, to make sure there are no more mistakes, and I am absolutely blown away by how good they sound.

The best drums we’ve ever recorded, hands down, full stop.

More soon! 🥁