The Treasure - Recording Progress

The recording is progressing nicely, but I'm learning about what it takes to manage a recording project when all the help are volunteers.

My key vocalist who would have recording all of my harmony background vocals (also called BGVs) when from being very available to maybe available on one night. My guitar player is waiting for his guitar to come back form the shop. Finally, the software I ordered that is supposed to allow me to make all the sounds of a symphony orchestra is suddenly not available and I had to reorder it from somewhere else.

So, I'm thinking of switching and having the vocalist play guitar instead.

The all I need is to find a person or two that can harmonize by ear without lots of prep time and be willing to do a recording session or two with very little pay. I know some others in places like Texas and South Carolina.

Also, I always say, never introduce new technology into the middle of a recording project, but I'm purchasing the Miroslave Philharmonic software. Five of the songs on the CD are recorded with accompaniment tracks that I've purchased from he store. I've been singing them in churches for nearly a year. The other six songs, I'm using live musicians to lay down the instrument tracks. For consistency and listenability, I want a string section. Since I don't happen to be friends with a chamber orchestra or anything, this is the next best thing.

There is at least one point each week when I think to myself, "Who was I kidding? This will never work". Last week, it was when I was trying to teach myself the bass line to There Is A Savior and How Deep The Father's Love and found out that the way I was plucking the strings was making them play sharp. I had to learn the part and relearn the best way to play the strings for that style of music. It took most of a day, but God provided. There's a few spots where I'm off, but otherwise it sounds good.

Pray for the progress of this recording. It has been a dream many years in the making and I'm hoping that it is integral to our pre-field missions ministry. No clue how God will use it once we are on the field.

Adam