FinishMySong Blog

It's been a productive but tiring day at Bradford's 'In-A-City' Recording Studio for the TFF lads. We spent most of the day laying down one single track, while the sound was carefully crafted by Carl Stipetic, In-A-City's inhouse Producer & Engineer. Because of the Sunday afternoon timing of the session it felt a little rushed, but by 10pm we managed to get a reasonable version of our song 'Confessions' mixed down to CD / mp3.


You can hear the track by visiting the TFF website - as soon as the page launches the song should start playing. The band lineup on this recording is as follows :

Lead Vocal - Jamie Bridge, Backing Vocal & Piano - Damian Oxborough, Guitars - Fintan Grant, Drums & Percussion - Richard Szustakowski, Bass Guitar - Liam Grant.

The recording session wasn't without it's difficulties either... this is probably one of the more challenging songs that we perform because of the way the piece is structured into various sections that are lead in and out by a strong but rigid pulse. It's hard enough to get this right when we play it live together, taking advantage of the odd nod and glance to keep everyone in check, but near impossible to get it perfectly in time when the parts are recorded separately, without a click track.

Having said that, I think the finished result is pretty impressive for a few hours work. Once we were confident that the rhythm section had the fabric of the song stitched up, we concentrated on making sure that the vocals did the sentiments expressed in the lyrics some justice. I think we we're getting pretty close with this recording, with the help of Carl's refined ear for these things.... the time and effort we have all put in has definitely been worth it today!