NINTH CIRCLE Complete Bass Tracks; Video From The Studio Posted
March 1, 2012, 12 years ago
Los Angeles power metal trio NINTH CIRCLE began recording the follow up to their 2008 release, The Power Of One, on February 4th at Ardent Audio Productions in Torrance, CA with Rich Wenzel at the helm engineering the drum tracks.
Bassist, Frank Forray offers an update to their current progress: "We have now completed the bass tracks for the new record. Dave took care of his part, the drum tracks, in two days, and a week later I began my bass tracks. With Jeff Prentice at the helm, he and I worked diligently over the course of about 7 days to complete the bass tracks for all 12 songs. This is a new experience for us; working at this new speed. It is a much quicker process than last time. In a matter of a month, we’ve completed a huge chunk of the work.”
“So far everything sounds great and all we have are just dry tracks”, Frank continues. “The drums sound huge and impressive. It was very easy to track along with Dave’s performance since it was outstanding and we were incredibly well rehearsed. So the bass sounds incredibly locked in."The band has a week off before they begin working on the guitar tracks.
“Yes, we scheduled a little of time in between recording the bass and guitar tracks. Jeff had a good suggestion which was to allow Dennis a week to rehearse with the tracks that were recently completed. This should give Dennis a nice timeframe to work with the expected timing for each track and some nuances in arrangement that the three of made when recording the drum tracks.”
Ninth Circle is expected to complete the guitar tracks in March which will leave April and May to record the vocal tracks.
“When you think about it, we put a lot of expectation on Dennis. He bears the majority of the weight in the studio because he is responsible for the rhythm guitars, solos, lead vocals and his third (or more than a third) of the background vocals. Though don’t get us wrong, he’s a workhorse and enjoys a good challenge, especially when the end result has such high expectations. We can’t wait to see what he delivers! Plus Jeff always gets the best out of him.”Video footage from the recording sessions can be seen below:
