Hymns Recording Project via “Sesh-Dog Mode”

We have been chomping at the bit with overdubs for quite some time now, several bands are finished, and a few bands are about ¾ of the way along. There have been some good times and some grueling long nights, getting into what we’re lovingly calling “seshdog’ mode. This is where you have spent too much time in a window-less recording studio and you should go home, but you’ve got to get that mythical guitar tone that you’ve been searching for over the past few hours. It’s such a bad place to be, and no matter how much I tell myself not to become a seshdog before I go in to the studio, after a few hours, the black hole has removed all sense of logic and reason (pun intended).

The additional struggle we’re having is that, many of the people being recorded are volunteers with day jobs and it’s very difficult not only to focus on the music and dig in, but also to find time to schedule folks. As I’ve said before, most of these folks are in bands which are still leading worship on Sundays, so they’ve sacrificed a ton of time in the middle of the making of this record.

At the moment, we’re searching for a mix engineer (the person who blends all of the different tracks together a VERY important part of how the record sounds in the end) who can mix the record soon and in our budget, which is a killer combo. We’re seeking to find someone who has mixed records where we like the way it sounds, also having worked with secular bands that we respect, so that the record doesn’t have a specifically “Christian’ sound to it. 

In other news we’re looking at offering a pre-release EP of the record at our upcoming “Ceaseless Worship’ conference, September 17-18. Then the hope is to release the record internally (Mars Hill only) by the end of the year, with a possible national release in 2008.

I’m extremely excited about the way this thing is coming together (which is saying a lot, for a person who’s not easily excited) and I look forward to being done with it so that all of you can enjoy it!