Blog
We keep a blog on our MySpace page, below is a list of the latest posts with a summary. Click the desired link to read the full post.
slicethepie album update #15 - vocal recording pt2
[Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:05]
..Crazy counting time!In the middle eight of one of our new songs, we have to say the phrase "four one three two two three one four" three times fast. Give it a try, can you do it? Gareth can't in 3 a... read full story
slicethepie album update #14 - vocal recording pt1
[Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:29]
..So we're now in a studio doing vocal recording. We don't have an engineer this time, but we're hiring decent equipment (a Neumann mic and a Neve 1073 if you're interested in that kind of thing).Here... read full story
Gore and Gloire
[Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:00]
..OK, 2 things of interest for you. Firstly, I've put a new "song" up on our profile, some extracts of the recording for the song "The Killing of Isla Nickelson". No vocals yet - we're going to be rec... read full story
slicethepie album update #13 - guitar recording pt4
[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:05]
We were laying down some guide vocals, and it turns out Gareth is a bit of a diva.We're not allowed to look him in the eye either. Well we are, but if we do you have to lick your lips and tell him he'... read full story
slicethepie album update #12 - guitar recording pt3
[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:16]
..OK, a little update for the slightly geeky - a video showing one of our recording methods to get that elusive guitar sound. In this case we're mic-ing up a Vox AC30 to get a full-bodied clean sound,... read full story
slicethepie album update #11 - guitar recording pt 2
[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:06]
A long long day at the studio. Quite hard not to go crazy when there's just 2 of you, and one of you is constantly operating the controls and the other one is constantly playing guitar parts. Your ear... read full story
slicethepie album update #10 - guitar recording
[Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:31]
Hi everybodyToday was Gibson Day. First day of recording since we got the drums and bass done, and we're approaching the recording guitar by guitar rather than song by song. It means there's less time... read full story
Recording session finished
[Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:31]
I hope you've enjoyed the spam of videos in the last few days. As you might gather we had a lot of fun in the studio. But there was a darker side too, which was that we had to work and concentrate.How... read full story
slicethepie album update #9 - Bass recording
[Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:06]
A couple of clips of Gareth Moss recording bass for The Guilty Hands, with varying degrees of success.On the whole the boy's done good though; we're just working through the 2 tracks in drop D tuning ... read full story
slicethepie album update #8 - Door Fail
[Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:22]
So we're recording the bass today. Martin Allan Grey thought that he'd take a video that exposed the difference in volume levels between the control room and the noise isolation room. This didn't work... read full story
