Stephen C. Shapiro

So Ryan drove back home to Fort Lauderdale, and in two weeks time we organized over 30 songs into different projects, and completed the tracking for two of those projects. Aside from some long distance tracking from some of Ryan’s friends, this endeavor was just Ryan and me in the studio.

The daily routine was something like this: Wake up, breakfast, record, lunch, record, dinner, relax, reflect, retire, repeat. It seemed like a schedule I would have if I had enough clients to do this full-time. It was a lot of fun, and I could see myself working like this every week, but I definitely need a break for now.

Anyway, this experience prompted me to write a post about the difference between the role of a producer and the role an engineer, and how to work one-on-one with a songwriter. I will put this up soon.

P.S. A quick technical note of reflection: in mixing, I realized how much I prefer Drumagog over Sound Replacer. Especially the large amount of velocity layers and being able to automate parameters like sensitivity/threshold – fun stuff.