Holding Air Hostage

The time is 1:02PM, and the location is StudioWest, the place where we’ve spent a good chunk of our waking hours over the last day or so recording. Now the members of HAH have individually played some fantastic local venues—from the Belly Up and House of Blues to big casino stages like Viejas, etc—and we now have to admit that nothing makes you feel more like a professional rockstar than recording at StudioWest. This place is simply amazing. Check out the pics (under ‘Tour’) at www.studiowest.com, for starters. We are fortunate to be paired with one of their great engineers, Caleb Keiter, who has pretty much blown away our already high expectations for what kind of recordings we can pull out of this place.

‘Now, wait a minute,’ you might say, being the loyal and obsessive HAH fan who reads the blog and comes to all the live shows. Because you know that we’ve sworn up and down that we were already in the studio recording what was to be our breakthrough virgin CD/EP release.

Well, we lied.

Okay, okay, it wasn’t really a lie. Through the spring and early summer we were slowly recording in a studio—only the studio was a home studio and we weren’t quite getting the recordings we needed. That YOU need, our devoted and beloved fan.

So here we are, listening to tracks playing back through the speakers in the engineer’s booth at StudioWest, adding some guitar parts and getting ready for Jeremy and Tony to get some more vocal parts down on “Standing at the Edge”. We found out about this place through Astra Kelly, who has been a great resource and supporter for us since day one. Turns out that she’s also the studio manager here and knew enough of our music to hook us up with Caleb.

We came into the studio with the primary goal of getting incredible drum recordings, and hoping to get decent enough takes on everything else while we were at it. We had a list of seven songs ready to go, yet it was suggested that we not expect more than four songs worth of drums and bass tracks put down. We weren’t told that it couldn’t be done…but we were told it couldn’t be done, if you know what I mean.

At this point in time, we’ve got 95% of 7 songs worth of tracks layed out. And the raw, unmixed recordings already sound awesome! I could be wrong, and I might be going out on a long limb here, but I think we’re fucking rockstars.

We’ll post some pics from the studio soon, and will keep y’all updated on when the tracks are mixed, mastered and getting ready for release.

Stay tuned for more from Holding Air Hostage….

HAH

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