Yeah! We got all twelve songs in the can. This old bit of music lingo comes from the days of reel-to-reel tape. Those reels were stored in a metal can.
“You want to do this on reel-to-reel tape?” Mike Bitterman, owner of Midnight Modulations studio, asked me before the session.
Mike is a fan of analog recording, and he hates the digital format. He’s right in a certain way. Digital recordings are compressed. If you have the ears to hear it, music takes on a metallic edge in the digital format. A thriving market for vinyl records still exists.
No, we didn’t record to reel-to-reel. We recorded direct to digital.
The boys and I sat for four hours without a break and burned twelve tracks. The Karaoke Queen kept the coffee coming. Fred, Joe and Ken each called me afterward to ask me what I thought of the result.
“I don’t know,” I had to say. “I’m too burned out to say.”
I think we’ll find some really good material in there when we return to edit and shrink each song down to two track stereo.
Anybody got any suggestions for a name for the CD?
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