Recording a Lo-Fi Record — Part 3 — (SESSION 03) — Electric Piano Tweaks / Synth Overdubs / Organ Overdubs Since the Electric Piano was such a big player in sound of Youth Lagoon, it was important to get these sounds dialed in early in order to set the tone for what was yet to come. As stated…

Recording a Lo-Fi Record — Part 2 — (SESSION 02) — Overdub Keys This was a short session — the primary focus being to add any additional keyboard overdubs we felt that songs might need before re-amping and committing to the sounds. Again, the setup was pretty basic since we were focussing on performances more than the sounds…

Recording a Lo-Fi Record — Part 1 — Due to the widespread and popular assumption that “The Year of Hibernation was done entirely in the bedroom of Trevor Powers”, I was inspired to share some of the behind the scenes details from our recording sessions. Although it was one of our intentions that this record could be perceived…

I recently decided to dig up a bunch of my own songs that I had been loosely working on over the last few years — between projects. To my surprise, there were about 8 decent songs in the mess. So I decided to narrow the list down to my top…

As I am about to launch a complete overhaul of my personal website (parkaudio.net), my good friend William Cremin suggested that I move my old blog entries from the previous website over to this “medium” — pun fully intended. …