INSIDE THE MAKING OF BOTTOM OF THE GLOVES DEBUT ALBUM: Week 6 progress

Last week I did not have much in the way of progress on the recording side of this album, how ever i did start the mixing process on two songs and mixing the drums on two more. For the songs, Heart of Fire and Around, I have all the instrumentation mixed to where I feel comfortable adding the vocals and for the songs Rose to the Flame and Bottom of the Glove, I have the drum tracks exactly where I like them to add the rest of the instruments and the vocals. The instruments will be recorded later this week and I will set up a studio session at the Art Institute for next Monday to get the vocals on the two songs that are almost complete. The only real issue I have ran into is time and band motivation. This is a learning process for both the band and I and getting them motivated to work can be challenging at times. So far, I am on schedule to complete the project on time, however, I have found that my original time line seems to be more of a suggestion rather then something that I follow to the letter. I was not planning on mixing the songs until I have them complete, but that just does not work and i think that if i waited until they were all recorded, I would not have enough time to finish, so I am mixing as we go. This plan seems to be working out well because I can use the down time from recording to mix and fill time that I might not have later. For the recording process, the Eleven Rack is working out very well to get the amp tones for the guitars. It took a little while to convince the guitarist to let me use the Eleven Rack but when I showed them what the unit can do, they were more then happy with the results so far.