Studio visit. (Boulder, Colorado)

Anton and I went and checked out a gorgeous studio today. We’re shopping around studios to handle the mastering – and we thought perhaps some of the tracking – for the new album (FYI, we’re planning the CD release party for March 2009). We drove out to the mountains west of Boulder and visited with an engineer in a ‘tower’ of sorts… Anton and I both left the place saying, “someday… we’ll have homes and home studios like that!”

The plan at the moment is to return to our own RabbitSounds studio and track the entire album on our own again – and then perhaps take it to a professional studio like the one above to have it mixed and mastered. A big part of the creative process for us is the “vibe” that we’re able to create in the recording space. While the place above has an absolutely gorgeous setting in the mountains, we’re feeling like our own studio space has just as much going for it – beautiful views of the mountains AND a completely relaxed vibe where we can come and go as we please, write without a “running tab” (cost) pressuring us, and really take our time to track and re-track and write and re-write as often as we need to.

We head out on tour in a couple of weeks, and we’ll be gone for a couple of weeks… and when we return we’ve got a handful of shows booked up until November 15th, at which point we’ll “disappear” for a bit and concentrate on being in the studio each and every day, working towards a release in the very early spring.

What an amazing way to finish 2008…