Equipment & Recording
Our technique for recording is actually very simple. The first album (which, by the way, was conceived by accident) was written with only two keyboards. The second album had three keyboards featured on it, and the third, plus any other songs that we had recorded since, are performed with four synthesizers. Drew uses the Korg Triton and Korg X5D while I use a Roland JV-90 and either an Alesis ion, a Roland JP-8000, or a Korg Z1.
Whatever keyboards are being used, they're all cabled into a Behringer Eurorack Pro 8-track line mixer, then fed from that into a Marantz CDR-631 CD burner, where everything is recorded live, without any over-dubbing.
The whole process of writing the songs changes for each song. The first few songs on Going With It were actually improvised 100% once we hit Record on the burner. The chord changes, melodies, and bass lines were literally thought up on the spot. Once we hit the 5th song (Kick In the Brass), we started getting ideas for other songs and decided to go with that plan instead. Along with that came the concept of writing a couple of chord patterns then hitting Record and verbally sharing our ideas while recording, changing patterns on the spot and writing new parts while recording.
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