Recording at 301.

Good afternoon listeners. Today's broadcast comes to you direct from Studios 301, where I am recording the vocals for Take the Ride and getting the track mixed and mastered. At the moment I am on the sofa, having spent the morning laying down the vocal tracks, listening to our talented engineer do magical things to the sounds we've recorded. It's a radical and very satisfying process. It's also kind of confronting. U2 was in this studio just the other day. Lady Gaga popped in to do some stuff recently too, as did Kanye West and an extensive list of notable others. As you hear your vocal takes getting cut up and pasted together, you can't help but wonder whether the more famous musical folks who have graced these mics with their warblings, have required quite the same level of engineering that you do. The voice too, as an instrument, leaves you exposed, because it is an entirely personal expression of you. If it sounds shit, or weak, or wobbly or out of tune, it's because you are being a bit shit or weak, or wobbly or out of tune. You can't blame it on the guitar. And you can't just switch your voice on to the settings you were using when you practiced. The way it sounds is dependent on what you've eaten or had to drink, the air you've been in, the sleep you've had, the energy you've expended that day. You just have to warm it up, try and relax and hope that what you want to come out will come out. Well maybe that's not the way it is for Gaga, but at this stage that's how it is for me. Anyway enough blah blah about la la. Time to get back to the action.