Long Time Citizen is a music project by Cape Town musicians Greg Donnelly and Anton Marshall. It launched in July 2011, but carries a rich history of interweaving band projects. See the Bio page for a short history. Or check out the Music page, which features streams of the releases as they happen.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Studio: Who's Gonna Bang My Drum
February 23, 2011
Unlike the stage context most people get to see bands perform in, Studio work is not very glamourous. And pretty boring for people not actually involved in what's going on.
For the performer, engineer or producer, though, it's concentration work. And there's constant discussion going on as to whether there's a better way to capture something, both performance-wise and technically.
This video clip was taken during an impromptu guitar tracking session at Kill City Blues for Who's Gonna Bang My Drum?
George vd Spuy was kind enough to squeeze us in for two hours before the main rehearsal session took place that day, and even engineered the tracking.
A little bit about the process:
At this stage, I've already developed a basic rhythm track in my own "studio" for Greg to play the guitar to.
So Greg's out there essentially playing his guitar to himself with a drums and percussion ringing in his ears. Technically, this is a multi-studio recording now!
Unlike the stage context most people get to see bands perform in, Studio work is not very glamourous. And pretty boring for people not actually involved in what's going on.
For the performer, engineer or producer, though, it's concentration work. And there's constant discussion going on as to whether there's a better way to capture something, both performance-wise and technically.
This video clip was taken during an impromptu guitar tracking session at Kill City Blues for Who's Gonna Bang My Drum?
George vd Spuy was kind enough to squeeze us in for two hours before the main rehearsal session took place that day, and even engineered the tracking.
A little bit about the process:
At this stage, I've already developed a basic rhythm track in my own "studio" for Greg to play the guitar to.
So Greg's out there essentially playing his guitar to himself with a drums and percussion ringing in his ears. Technically, this is a multi-studio recording now!
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