Recording So Long DaVinci/The Worst\Funniest\Scarriest\Most Memorible Weekend Ever
So this weenend was the first weekend where I started recording So Long DaVinci. It was the most crazy weekend I've ever had. Before I go any futher with this story I'd like to take a second to say how much So Long DaVinci rules and that when they start playing shows and passing out demos, if they pass cds out, everyone needs to support these guys because they are some of the coolest people you'll ever meet. So anyways this is how the story starts......
At 5 o'clock Friday afternoon I get off from work and start packing my equipment and head over to the office. Kendall is supposed to come by early that night so I can record some song for extra credit for his science class. I start unpacking my equipment in the office and as I'm doing so I realize that I'm missing one of my overhead mics I need to record drums, so I tear my two bags of cables up looking for it to find I don't have it. So I tell Kendall I'm gonna go drive to my house real quick, since I only like 2 minutes away from where I work, and I tell him I'm gonna lock the door on my way out so don't go outside. Well after I tear my room to pieces I come back to the office. When I go inside I take my keys off and put them down on my desk and start talking to Kendall again. At this point I think of another place I can check for this mic. So with my dad's car key in hand, (seeing as my car is still in the shop getting fixed I had to drive my Dad's car this weekend), I leave the office while the key to the office is on my keyring which is still sitting on my desk. All this time the door is still locked, it's one of those doors that when you lock it, you only know it if u grab the handle on the outside. This time Kendall walks out with me and we're talking all the way to my car. When I come back I find Kendall walking around outside. When I get out of my car he tells me the office is locked and I freak out because I can't call my dad and tell him this. So then Jacob and the rest of the guys get there and........
I tell Jacob I didn't lock the dead bolt on the door so he's like pssshhhh I can't break into that. So for twenty minutes we're looking for things to stick into the door to pry it open. We find two screw drivers. Jacob jams them both in there and he pushes as hard as he can one way while Brandon pushes as hard as he can the other way. Needless to say the door just freakin poped open. Next.....
We start unloading all the equipment out of the cars and putting it into the building. Well we're walking down the hallway and I'm telling them please don't scracth the walls and they're like we swear we won't or at least we'll be as carefull as we can. About 10 minutes later Jordan is talking to me as he is moving Chris's (sp) new head down the hallway. Well thank God I had learned how to make those kinda scratches look like they had been there for a while. So that wasn't a big deal. We hoped that would be the worst of our problems. As we get in there I explain my problem with missing a mic and tell them I'm gonna have to go buy two new ones tomorrow if we want the mix to sound good. I had called my brother earlier that night and I left a message asking that if I had left my mic over there, if he would call me tonight. Well the night goes on and SLD plays me their songs. They ruled and we all go home about 11. About an hour later I'm sleeping and my brother calls telling me he has the mic I'm looking for.
So on Saturday I get up at like 8. By 10:30 I'm driving to my brother's house to get the mic. I get back to the office by 11 so we start moving all the equipment to their rooms so we can start recording. Well Danielle, girlfriend to "That One Guy" (aka Cory), comes over to the office to see Cory and see all that is going on. In the meantime Jacob and I go to my house and get my head for Brandon to use and "A BAG OF CHIPS". When I get back I'm trying to get Jordan to walk down the hallway with me and show me where some patch cables are and Cory is eating that bag of chips I brough for us. So Jordan is like "omg omg omg omg omg i need chips and like rips them out of Cory's hands and I go off thinking we're screwed and I go to sleep in a room for a while. While I'm sleeping Jordan is vaccuming half a bag of chips off the floor with the offices piece of crap vaccum. And then a bit of drama begins to happen so the band goes to a different room to talk. Well Danielle and I are in this one room where everytime you shut a door the other door in the room opens so we're slamming the doors as hard as we can. The band comes back and everyone says their "I'm sry's". So we're all cool. Well by the time we get ready to start recording some tracks a thunder storm comes and the office always gets hit so we unplug all our equipment and wait for the storm to pass. While we wait we're all kinda running around the office yelling and playing hide and seek in the dark and slamming doors. The storm passes about an hour later and we start recording. Danielle leaves and then comes back with Devon ,g/f to Toliet Boy (aka Jordan). And everyone is all like "omg omg omg omg" and we get no recording done. Jordan goes into the room where his bass is and it turns out his head is screwed because a fuse blew. So Cory, Danielle, Devon and Jordan all go outside and talk and w/e else they were doing. Danielle and Devon leave and then the fun begins. We record the vocal tracks for one of their songs fine and it turns out great.
Once we got all the tracks done for one of the songs we were listening to the raw recording and as we're doing so my dad calls and thnx to my lack of sleep and food all day we get into an arguement and I end up punching a "Hole In The Wall" and I spend the rest of the night being like, "I'm and idiot" and stuff like that. I call my dad back later and apoligize for my stupidity and he is cool. But he would still be pissed to know I punched a hole in the wall. So I spend most of the night fixing it and packing out stuff up so when we come back tomorrow we can just load it up.
After church Dennis rides with me and we drive over the office and look around. Geez it looked so screwed up. The caulking on all the doors we slammed is screwed up. I call all the guys and ask if they have and caulking and Jordan says he'll go by his house and see if he has some. Thank God Toliet Boy has some and brings it. Well the only two people who are good with caulking are Jacob and Dennis (thank God for them both). So Dennis and I start working on hole I punched and got it so you'd really only notice it if you were looking for it. While this is going on everyone else is cleaning up moving equipment and Jacob starts on the caulking. Later on Dennis helps him and they get it looking freakin amazing. And for now that's about all there is to the story we'll see if I survive when I get into work tomorrow. I'm gonna be so nervous all day.
PLEASE GOD DON'T LET ME GET CAUGHT. =(
So I hope our troubles can make you all laugh and say "Wow! They are stupid!" So yeah I'll see you guys later.
-Mike
At 5 o'clock Friday afternoon I get off from work and start packing my equipment and head over to the office. Kendall is supposed to come by early that night so I can record some song for extra credit for his science class. I start unpacking my equipment in the office and as I'm doing so I realize that I'm missing one of my overhead mics I need to record drums, so I tear my two bags of cables up looking for it to find I don't have it. So I tell Kendall I'm gonna go drive to my house real quick, since I only like 2 minutes away from where I work, and I tell him I'm gonna lock the door on my way out so don't go outside. Well after I tear my room to pieces I come back to the office. When I go inside I take my keys off and put them down on my desk and start talking to Kendall again. At this point I think of another place I can check for this mic. So with my dad's car key in hand, (seeing as my car is still in the shop getting fixed I had to drive my Dad's car this weekend), I leave the office while the key to the office is on my keyring which is still sitting on my desk. All this time the door is still locked, it's one of those doors that when you lock it, you only know it if u grab the handle on the outside. This time Kendall walks out with me and we're talking all the way to my car. When I come back I find Kendall walking around outside. When I get out of my car he tells me the office is locked and I freak out because I can't call my dad and tell him this. So then Jacob and the rest of the guys get there and........
I tell Jacob I didn't lock the dead bolt on the door so he's like pssshhhh I can't break into that. So for twenty minutes we're looking for things to stick into the door to pry it open. We find two screw drivers. Jacob jams them both in there and he pushes as hard as he can one way while Brandon pushes as hard as he can the other way. Needless to say the door just freakin poped open. Next.....
We start unloading all the equipment out of the cars and putting it into the building. Well we're walking down the hallway and I'm telling them please don't scracth the walls and they're like we swear we won't or at least we'll be as carefull as we can. About 10 minutes later Jordan is talking to me as he is moving Chris's (sp) new head down the hallway. Well thank God I had learned how to make those kinda scratches look like they had been there for a while. So that wasn't a big deal. We hoped that would be the worst of our problems. As we get in there I explain my problem with missing a mic and tell them I'm gonna have to go buy two new ones tomorrow if we want the mix to sound good. I had called my brother earlier that night and I left a message asking that if I had left my mic over there, if he would call me tonight. Well the night goes on and SLD plays me their songs. They ruled and we all go home about 11. About an hour later I'm sleeping and my brother calls telling me he has the mic I'm looking for.
So on Saturday I get up at like 8. By 10:30 I'm driving to my brother's house to get the mic. I get back to the office by 11 so we start moving all the equipment to their rooms so we can start recording. Well Danielle, girlfriend to "That One Guy" (aka Cory), comes over to the office to see Cory and see all that is going on. In the meantime Jacob and I go to my house and get my head for Brandon to use and "A BAG OF CHIPS". When I get back I'm trying to get Jordan to walk down the hallway with me and show me where some patch cables are and Cory is eating that bag of chips I brough for us. So Jordan is like "omg omg omg omg omg i need chips and like rips them out of Cory's hands and I go off thinking we're screwed and I go to sleep in a room for a while. While I'm sleeping Jordan is vaccuming half a bag of chips off the floor with the offices piece of crap vaccum. And then a bit of drama begins to happen so the band goes to a different room to talk. Well Danielle and I are in this one room where everytime you shut a door the other door in the room opens so we're slamming the doors as hard as we can. The band comes back and everyone says their "I'm sry's". So we're all cool. Well by the time we get ready to start recording some tracks a thunder storm comes and the office always gets hit so we unplug all our equipment and wait for the storm to pass. While we wait we're all kinda running around the office yelling and playing hide and seek in the dark and slamming doors. The storm passes about an hour later and we start recording. Danielle leaves and then comes back with Devon ,g/f to Toliet Boy (aka Jordan). And everyone is all like "omg omg omg omg" and we get no recording done. Jordan goes into the room where his bass is and it turns out his head is screwed because a fuse blew. So Cory, Danielle, Devon and Jordan all go outside and talk and w/e else they were doing. Danielle and Devon leave and then the fun begins. We record the vocal tracks for one of their songs fine and it turns out great.
Once we got all the tracks done for one of the songs we were listening to the raw recording and as we're doing so my dad calls and thnx to my lack of sleep and food all day we get into an arguement and I end up punching a "Hole In The Wall" and I spend the rest of the night being like, "I'm and idiot" and stuff like that. I call my dad back later and apoligize for my stupidity and he is cool. But he would still be pissed to know I punched a hole in the wall. So I spend most of the night fixing it and packing out stuff up so when we come back tomorrow we can just load it up.
After church Dennis rides with me and we drive over the office and look around. Geez it looked so screwed up. The caulking on all the doors we slammed is screwed up. I call all the guys and ask if they have and caulking and Jordan says he'll go by his house and see if he has some. Thank God Toliet Boy has some and brings it. Well the only two people who are good with caulking are Jacob and Dennis (thank God for them both). So Dennis and I start working on hole I punched and got it so you'd really only notice it if you were looking for it. While this is going on everyone else is cleaning up moving equipment and Jacob starts on the caulking. Later on Dennis helps him and they get it looking freakin amazing. And for now that's about all there is to the story we'll see if I survive when I get into work tomorrow. I'm gonna be so nervous all day.
PLEASE GOD DON'T LET ME GET CAUGHT. =(
So I hope our troubles can make you all laugh and say "Wow! They are stupid!" So yeah I'll see you guys later.
-Mike