Record This: A Telephony Delivery

It doesn't help that your guitar's having the "slippery tune slip" syndrome while recording. Fortunately the whole ordeal was for only two songs.

Being a virgin at this, I was unrelentingly nervous and somewhat tensed at first. It doesn't help either that I'm a pick-less guitarist which kinda compromised the guitar track's clarity. But then again, rounds of air suam, sticks of Cakoi and the room's bomb shelter-like set up, I pulled through decently well.

The whole experience was made easy with Adzwan's breezy, hyper-ish attitude (which, according to Bob, was a different side of him), patiently thumping the keys and clicking the mouse whenever I signalled that I needed another take. He was so breezy that he even curi-curi tulang YM-ing with his "Tercinta". Heh.

"All Was Lost" has now shaped up to be a heartwrenching tune instead of a jiwang-leleh like as we expected. With Azmir leaving us soon, it made it ever the more relevant. It was very understanding of him as well to redo the 1st half of his vocals. He surprised us with his terpendam voice. That man can sing. Azhar also redid his keyboard track and managed to add a few twists making the song a lil' bit longer than its 2 minute length.

Doing "June Of July" was fun. I had the impression of it being the toughest to lay down. Turns out to be the most enjoyable. Syamil's redoing his guitar tracks sometime soon. Personally, between us, he's more proficient than I am and he knows his gear well. It's intimidating talking to him about gear stuffs. What I know is like a can of soda compared to his reservoir-like knowledge. It's a plus point that he's ever helpful for those in need of his assistence.

We head over to Mokh's for Adib's drum tracks. While he was busy shouting at Adzwan adjustng the levels, we were busy having fun with Mokh, taking pictures with his keyboards and sofas. It was kinda a smoothsail for Adib. He's good with metronome. We wrapped up around 3 in the A.M. Went to Darus for drinks, headed home when everyone was exhausted and Adib -literally- slept on the table. 12 hours of recording will do that to you.

Mixing will take place soon. It's only last week that we played our first gig. I'm still tired. Happy Aidiladha everyone.