I did a home-recorded demo EP for my friends in London Spy. We begged, borrowed, and stole a bunch of gear from The Kitchen, and set up in a south granville basement.

I’ve done bits and pieces of audio engineering, but this was the first project to incorporate a full band, dampened live rooms, multiple monitor mixes with talkback, and complete instrument isolation. I sort of just copied the workflow I’ve seen when The Kitchen has been in the studio. Everything was recorded through a Digi002 Rack and mixed in Pro Tools. For mastering, I applied generous amounts of a 14-band multicompresser, and then a nice dither and hard-limiter. For never having mastered a recording like this before, it turned out pretty well.

You can hear the tracks on London Spy’s MySpace page.

We did all the tracking in a weekend. Here are some photos…