Fly Covered Candy

In the spring of 2011 I recorded a friends band called Fly Covered Candy they had been playing together a long time and the songwriter was graduating so they wanted to record some of their songs before he left.

So late on a couple of weekends we came in and took over the second floor or the Rozsa Center and set up to record. To try and get as much isolation as possible the guitar and bass amplifiers were spread out through the building, but they were all playing in the same room listening to the mix on headphones. It was decided to overdub the vocals so we wouldn't have to worry about putting the singer in an entirely separate room.

This set up created reasonable isolation, and once the band got use to it created some good takes of their songs.

After the band recorded all the songs and they were roughly mixed the singer was brought in and over two days he overdubbed his vocals. As a spur of the moment decision sometimes the lead guitarist and songwriter would double some of the vocal parts.

Everything was recorded and mixed in Pro Tools.

The rhythm guitarist's amp was put in an
isolation booth.

The lead guitarist's amp was placed in
the hallway.

       

The drummer was placed in the room with all of the
band members.

Another view of the band room, where they recorded.

The bass amp was put in the instrument
room, and was also DI'd.