Gaelica: Gaelica's new CD, 'Live at Traditions'

Gaelica: Gaelica's new CD, 'Live at Traditions': "Gaelica's new CD, 'Live at Traditions' is our main project at this time. We recorded the foundation of the CD at 'Traditions Cafe' on 5th &..."

Gaelica's new CD, 'Live at Traditions'

Gaelica's new CD, 'Live at Traditions' is our main project at this time. We recorded the foundation of the CD at 'Traditions Cafe' on 5th & Water in downtown Olympia on May 21st. The concert was sold out, there was not a single chair left in the house. Jack Rice, our recording engineer had to sit to the left of the stage to have room enough for his equipment. The biggest challenge of the concert was to situate the speakers for the audience in such a way that we wouldn't get any bleed into our microphones, which were all directs. The second biggest challenge was not having monitors, again, to try and avoid any bleed. thirdly, there were new piece that we wanted to be sure to have on the recording, so approx. 5 of our pieces were debuted that night. Still, we had an incredibly supportive audience, ( we love Olympia!) and we had just come off the road from a successful concert down in the Dalles, so we were fairly attuned to one another musically. Dick Myer, the owner of Traditions is fabulous to work with, he has a wonderful way of trusting the musician's process, so even when we were down to the wire with our sound check, he just stayed cool as a cucumber!
Now we are spending four hour stints in Jack's studio off of Pacific. Jack is great to work with, he's a musician and therefore understands the kind of effort if takes to produce the sound we want. We are nearly ready to start mixing.