Ah won't go home without you!

We're well into our third song of the day, Won't Go Home Without You, by Maroon 5. Matt Wade sings it. He's from Georgia. (Also, this song is fun. I keep wanting to bounce.)

(Also fun, this ridiculous video that Bill Hare wanted us to see.)

More musings... One of the more interesting parts of working with Bill has been getting his insight on our album-making process. He stopped working at one point to ask us whether we had only two people per voice part in our group, or if we had decided specifically to record that way. The latter is true--we're just under twenty people, but we have two people record each voice part on each song, and we rotate it so everyone records pretty evenly. And Bill thinks that works best---he thinks it's kind of ridiculous when a whole group records everyone on every song, leaving him with eight different bass tracks to mix together.

More interesting: So last album, we recorded two people at a time, in the same room, on separate microphones. I had us record one person at a time, hoping that we'd have better quality control and actually take less time in the end, but recording background vocals actually took a really long time---about 40-45 minutes per person per song, on average, with 8-10 people per song. But Bill says he actually tends to record four people at a time, all on the same voice part on different microphones. The big difference is that while we would have each person record about 4-8 measures in a row, stop, talk about it, and do it again, he tends to take a very small chunk and loop it over and over again, and the four people will sing it more and more comfortably and more and more together, and eventually the timing and the tuning and the energy just lock. And he gets a voice part recorded in around 45 minutes, all four people. We must try this.

Alright, I'm going to stop writing. Won't Go Home is almost done. Looks like we might start a fourth song today.