Screaming fields of sonic Jon...

Today, for the first time in seven years, the Flying Public was re-united in full, with all four original members having contributed to the demo that has now put on more miles than my car, collecting tracks and forming into a song.    Yes, that's a shot of our recording set-up with my finger in front of part of the shot (I'm a photographer in my spare time).  Oh look, there's the iPad again...wonderful things they can do now-a-days!  Doesn't look quite as fancy as Cameron's set up...but it did the trick...

Jon and I are far from being qualified recording engineers, but we pulled it off. With the iRig and an SM57 in an Xbox Rock Band mic stand, some photography equipment rigged up for the 'studio' walls, and a whole lot of ambition and excitement, we put vocal tracks on top of the instrumental, the end result sounding (we think) better than some of our early FP studio demo sessions. 

Ok so it's still far from perfect in terms of recording quality, but did I mention this is a demo?  While remeniscing about Fostex four-tracks we realized how much better recording life is now that the future is now.  I just hope we didn't mess up Kyle's guitar tone too much...

Now the next step...we take the song, listen to it in our cars and on our iPods a million times, get hyper-critical about it all, and make it even better...

I can't wait.

Cheers,
Dave