Hey there Ray, Welcome... would you rather cut studio tracks or be out on the road?

[Fr!tz]

I'm sure both get to be a burdon at times, but what is more fun for you? Oh and is studio time with the band a royal pain in the ass or do things move well with all of the band members and engineers?

[Anderton]

Great question! I'm looking forward to the answer.

[Ray Luzier]

They are both completely different. I LOVE traveling... I've been to 35 Countries just this year alone! But it's not for everyone. I have a lot of pro musician friends that hate tour busses, airports, drastic climate changes and 19 hour time zone changes. I can't get enough of it and feel very lucky to be able to get paid well to travel the world and do what I love. But it does take a toll after a while. You never quite get enough sleep and you really have to watch your diet and take vitamins or you can get really sick.

The studio can be great too. I love to create and come up with ideas in the studio. It's pretty amazing that a recording you do will live on forever and a live show is just that moment in time.
As far as the band in the studio... I've done both where the full band will be there during the whole recording process and then just the engineer and myself. It depends on how cool the band is to work with honestly. Sometimes you can focus more when there not too many "cooks in the kitchen."
I just finished 5 tunes on Shenkar's new cd and it was completely finished, I had to lay down drums last which is very tricky. Usually, the drums are the first instrument to be tracked. On Jonathan Davis' new solo cd, I played to some programming but mostly to a click track. We used a ton of different drums and cymbals on his cd, it was a lot of fun!
With Army Of Anyone, it was the whole band playing together with legendary producer Bob Ezrin watching closely. It was important to us to capture a live band vibe on the record.
The way that records are made today is great because of technology and also scary because that can fix too much stuff with Pro Tools. It can really mess with the feel and the bands' vibe. With pitch control on the vocals to beat detective with drums. You can make a beginner sound amazing if you want to! I've been lucky to work with producers and engineers that still want that human feel and don't want to suck the soul out of the artist!
Be careful when you record and have your shit together... drummers, better practice with a click track at least 75% of the time if you want to work professionally. I'm on over 70 CDs and I'm always trying to improve and get better, you never stop learning!
I could go on and on but all this typing's driving me nuts ;)

[Fr!tz]

They are both completely different. I LOVE traveling... I've been to 35 Countries just this year alone! But it's not for everyone. I have a lot of pro musician friends that hate tour busses, airports, drastic climate changes and 19 hour time zone changes. I can't get enough of it and feel very lucky to be able to get paid well to travel the world and do what I love. But it does take a toll after a while. You never quite get enough sleep and you really have to watch your diet and take vitamins or you can get really sick.

The studio can be great too. I love to create and come up with ideas in the studio. It's pretty amazing that a recording you do will live on forever and a live show is just that moment in time.
As far as the band in the studio... I've done both where the full band will be there during the whole recording process and then just the engineer and myself. It depends on how cool the band is to work with honestly. Sometimes you can focus more when there not too many "cooks in the kitchen."
I just finished 5 tunes on Shenkar's new cd and it was completely finished, I had to lay down drums last which is very tricky. Usually, the drums are the first instrument to be tracked. On Jonathan Davis' new solo cd, I played to some programming but mostly to a click track. We used a ton of different drums and cymbals on his cd, it was a lot of fun!
With Army Of Anyone, it was the whole band playing together with legendary producer Bob Ezrin watching closely. It was important to us to capture a live band vibe on the record.
The way that records are made today is great because of technology and also scary because that can fix too much stuff with Pro Tools. It can really mess with the feel and the bands' vibe. With pitch control on the vocals to beat detective with drums. You can make a beginner sound amazing if you want to! I've been lucky to work with producers and engineers that still want that human feel and don't want to suck the soul out of the artist!
Be careful when you record and have your shit together... drummers, better practice with a click track at least 75% of the time if you want to work professionally. I'm on over 70 CDs and I'm always trying to improve and get better, you never stop learning!
I could go on and on but all this typing's driving me nuts ;)

Thanks Ray for the reply.

I on a way smaller scale tend to agree with you. Of course I, when on the road was in a van with 4 other dudes sleeping in cheap motels :lol:

As far as recording my old bands CD. That was an experience all in it's own. I had been playing to click tracks to get ready for the studio time and thought I'd never get it :D But the day came and things went well. I had become friends with Troy Luccketta, which is a story all in it's own, and he was at the studio where I was recording. He stood there and watched me. when it was all said and done he took me to his practice studio and gave me a few pointers. Then he let me play his Tama kit he uses for Saville Road. :thu: