I Love the Process

I love the feeling at the beginning of a session.

the studio is tidy. The floor is free of cables, headphones are hanging neatly, instruments are on their stands, the air is thick with excitement and possibility.

I love the feeling in the middle of a session.

a new idea hits or we’re chasing a sound. Someone’s pouring through a box of pedals looking for something unusual... We finished the lyrics 20 minutes ago and nail the 5th take… Sampling conversation snippets from an old VHS tape... routing a keyboard through an effects rig…

I love the feeling at the end of a session.

The studio is littered with instruments, mic stands, percussion stuff… the floor is a nest of cables, adapters, drum sticks and half-empty cans—the remnants of inspiration and execution.

I love the feeling of mixing a session.

The captured sounds are a memorial of time spent, moments shared. That piano line she stumbled onto during dinner is fire… What if the vocals were completely dry? I love that you can hear the drummer sneeze on-beat at 1:22…I’m gonna leave it in and see what they think.

I love the feeling of listening after the fact.

We made this. We did the work; We had some fun; and We’ll do it all again. Maybe tomorrow, maybe in a year, but we’ll do it again because this is what we do. We make stuff.