The picture above is for a very special joint effort going on to the Christmas Album. The Crawley Christmas singers, featuring Lisa Crawley, Matthew Crawley and (the lesser known for music but still very important) Emma Crawley.
Real life family band.
Also in the photo is Simon, cameraman for Nightline. They did a little feature on the Christmas album that you can see here
http://www.3news.co.nz/Bands-big-and-small-get-into-Xmas-spirit/tabid/728/articleID/186599/Default.aspx
Back to the recording, we recorded all 3 vocals, Acoustic guitar and Piano live and then overdubbed a toy piano solo.
Not long after the photo was taken I put an SM58 in front of Emma (on the left) as a placeholder to stop her getting too close to the KM184 which was popping a bit. The KM184 sounds great on a female vocal and as Emma was taking the high harmony I gave it to her, while Lisa took the Kiwi (set to supercardioid to cut down on piano bleed) and Matthew sang in to the warmer Baby Bottle.
Thats all the songs tracked! (although I think we might be adding some drums to Cool Rainbows track on Friday)
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