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These two tracks are two takes of the same "song." Before the Protools setup, we only had a cassette 4 track and one mini disc microphone so it was pretty much impossible to record multiple separate tracks at once. We could either record everyone together with one mic and hope for a lucky mix; or, be patient (which is not as fun) and record one track at a time. Ryan, it turns out, is a patient man so he made his way to the space on a few random Friday nights armed with a bottle of booze and laid down whatever he felt like with whatever instrument he felt like- one track at a time. The order was more often than not: drums->bass>rhodes->guitar... You can hear some of these experiments at his myspace.

Now, with the Protools setup we can record multiple people at once. Still, it's a fun experiment so Ryan and Nick gave it a go last month:

01Bounce_take1

They played and recorded the drums [Ryan] and bass [Nick] simultaneously. Listened to it once and then laid down rhodes [Ryan] and guitar [Nick] simultaneously on top of the now existing bass and drum foundation. It was fun so they did another pass over the original drum and bass to completely different results:

01Bounce_take2

And there you have it. I like both.
- b