BKB/SOF Pre Production part 2

Yamaha O2R. Digital console.
A 20 ft. green screen.
8 cameras on Vicon MCS.
1 hour to do our set. our special hour set.

So, this Yamaha O2R console is really nice. It's meant for live recordings in particular, and has a built in DAW for strictly on-the-fly mixing. Needless to say, this thing puts out some nice high quality mixes, this console in particular doesn't run through anything else but it's own console and the racks upon racks of pre's this hall has. No PT, no RADAR, no GarageBand or Sony Acid. I guess that's really all you need when you're taking a "Live Recording" class at a digital media school.

Speaking of which, a class of students will be mixing our songs. I'm pretty excited about this because this will be the first time in a very long time someone I don't know personally will be touching our tracks. Usually, Maxi, Tambo, or myself do mixing and mastering on our own... but now we got 10 - 20 soon-to-be sound techs doing our mix downs.

It's Monday. Last Saturday we had an explosion of songs come out of our hands and minds... four new songs on the table, almost all finished now. Don't know what got into us Saturday, but we're pretty much all but done with the instrumentation for not only our split but a full length at the end of the Summer.

Frankie, Brett, and myself found out that we can split our session on Wednesday (it's so soon!) into two sessions playing the same songs, so we're opting for that instead of our original plan of all our songs and choosing the best played four.

We are playing these 5 songs first:
Winner Tambo
Loser Schau
Friend Like Family
Swimming to Drown
Dracula

and we will have these two songs on reserve if we feel we played very well on two of the past songs:
Stranger Stages
Can You Dance to Redemption?

Priority wise, Winner Tambo and Loser Schau are the two songs we're definitely aiming to be gold. Friend Like Family is Frankie's choice, Swimming to Drown was my choice, and Dracula was Brett's choice in some weird way that I believe is kind of correct. The option for Stranger Stages and Can You Dance... as "side deck" songs was a group idea, because there is a (high) possibility we play two songs (Winner Tambo and Dracula probably) very very well.

And that's it for preproduction on this one... Wednesday: Doomsday. See you then!