After the recording, what happens next?

The Attic, in Chicago.  With watchdog, Maddox!

What happens after spending months finding tunes we want to record, arranging the tunes, practicing the tunes (for many hours...), and then going into the studio to record the tunes?   Believe it or not, the process has only just begun.   Our recording engineer and David's son, Greg Magers, took all of our recorded tunes back to his studio in Chicago (The Attic) to begin work on the next phase. We will have 17 tracks on the CD - at least that's the plan! That actually worked out to 25 separate recorded sessions!


The Attic, in Chicago.  With Eleanora!

 
So far, David has made two trips to Chicago to  provide input in the editting process and to overdub some more guitar tracks and add drum (jjembe!) tracks.  We have also asked Graham Burris, Greg's assistant and bass player extraordinaire, to overdub bass tracks on our tunes to add some more color to the finished recording!   This work has been done.  What remains is for a guest recording on three tracks by Emily Magers, David's daughter and accomplished violinist/fiddler and the mixing and sequencing (another trip to Chicago by Stephanie) and the mastering. 

At that point, we will be ready to send our master to a CD manufacturing company to produce.  We have decided to not manufacture this CD ourselves as we have the previous two.  It's a lot of work to do and the commercial companies can do it faster, more professionally, and for about the same or less money!  But it does mean Stephanie is learning Coreldraw to produce the artwork for the CD packaging to submit when the master is ready!

Will we make it by Christmas?  Well... unfortunately it is looking a bit unlikely.  This process has taken more time that we expected - there have been a couple of unplanned delays and Greg's schedule has been a bit tight.  But, the silver cloud to this story is that The Looking Glass has agreed to host a CD release party for us mid to late January!  This will be our first ever release party - and based on the reviews of the editted tracks so far, this CD will be even better than our last one - so it will be more than worthy of a release party.  Stay tuned for details of the party!  Of course, as soon as the CD is produced and we have it in our hands, it will be available for sale - we have been asked a bunch of times when our next CD is coming out because folks want to buy it to add to their Red River Breeze collection!  And we absolutely appreciate and cherish the loyalty of our fans!