Once again David has sent us all into a tizzy with his latest posts on Twitter!







Needless to say.....we can't wait for the results!


*does happy dance*

I was hyperventilating when I saw his tweets. I am soooooo excited, omg!

Awesome, awesome, awesome-------- Can't wait -------

And so it begins...


Jeannine

Great news ... can't wait for the finished product!

so excited!! I can't wait to hear the finished product

Interesting info on the the music production process, posted by Patti at DCO:



Article at above link:

Music Production Process: How does it take to produce a song?


Everyone has a certain moments in their life that they listen to commercial FM radio stations. You might hear a lot of great songs and some are still memorable as of today. Then you might asked, how this songs comes out to be played on the radio? Who created this one? Is this done by the song artist itself or only the recording company is involved?

Then you might see music videos of artists playing in the bands along with their instruments that might take place in a recording studio. Then you might ask again, does the song might be recorded in that studio? A lot of fascinating questions, even I before didn’t have a single idea of the entire music production process.

Below are the steps and processes of music production:

Step 1: The moment the artist recording label (like Universal Records, Sony BMG, etc) decided to start an album recording project. The recording label assigns a record producer to the artist. In some cases, the artist will be the one to select a record producer but this is subject to recording label approval.

Step 2: The recording producer along with what has been agreed with the artist and recording label will finally decided on what type of sound they are planning to achieve. Some rough ideas on songs to be included on the album might be discussed in this stage (if the artist has some rough demos before).

Step 3: The recording producer drafts the recording plan and activities and quotes the budget. The recording label will be the one to entirely finance the recording of the album songs.

Step 4: The recording producer with the coordination of artist and recording label will shop for songs and contact music publishers they know or even songwriters they have partnered with. They will decide the final song lists to be included in the album along with the possible singles (hit songs).

Step 5: The recording producer starts the recording session with the artist.

The recording producer is responsible of the song arrangement, instruments to be added to song, sound and style of the music. And then the recording producer will be the one to rent a studio, hire an engineer, hire additional musicians and booked additional vocalists to complete the recording. The budget used is provided by recording label.

Step 6: Once everything is recorded, the mixing session starts. The recording producer hires a mixing engineer appropriate for the sound of the album.

Step7: Once the mix has been finalized, the recording label and artist will approve it. Once approved, the mastering session will start.

Step8: The mastering session prepares all tracks for commercial production and replication. In this stage the recording producer hires a mastering engineer. The song artist and recording label should also approve the master. The product of the mastering stage is the master CD ready for replication (that adheres to CD red book standard: http://www.a1cds.co.uk/master.htm ). The recording producer work is now complete and he/she will provide the CD to the recording label.

Step9: The recording label will finalize the album art design, marketing plan and replication.

Step10: Singles or hit songs from the album (selected tracks) will be provided to the radio stations for massive airplay as part of album marketing. Music videos are also released to music video channels.

And the artist will start visiting radio stations, TV stations or even perform concerts as part of the promotion.

Step11: Listeners like us can now start to listen the songs aired on the radio. The music production process has been completed.

This tickled me to no end. Guess they didn't get the memo from Dave that they actually should talk to the computer. ROFLMAO!

http://yfrog.com/0crfnz


Jeannine

Interesting to read bout the making of an album. I never knew how much work and effort it took and how many people are involved. Very excited about recording beginning.

This makes one feel part of the process. I am excited about the prospect of the birth of the new album.

It is rather exciting . I'm sure it'll be nothing less than amazing.

Hope so. It has to be. This is the one that really matters.

Jeannine

I, too, am excited that he's back in the studio starting to record the new album. I can't wait to hear the finished product. He has said that there are going to be different material on there, more piano, for example. I just want RCA to bend some more for him and get behind him and just push him out there. Like Jeannine said, this one really matters.

David blessed us with another twitvid today. He has titled it "The Excitement of the Studio!" And rightly so, with Kyle on the drums...reminds me of Animal (The Muppets)!





And......in case you missed the first one.

Really exciting. Now off to watch some paint dry, LOL.

Jeannine

Re-Tweet from Lisa/FoolsApril64 at DCO:

#FoolsApril64

RT @emblemmusic: Another day in the studio w/@thedavidcook [David Cook] and co. Everything is sounding great!! http://twitpic.com/20tqtp 20 minutes ago via TweetDeck

Oh goodness. Don't they look like a bunch of happy campers! LOL!!

Jeannine

They look like they're having more fun than a barrel 'o' monkeys in those vids. Glad to see them in the studio, though!

I read this and I started chuckling. Of course I checked out the video and started laughing. He reminds me of Animal from the Muppets too Pretty funny.


Thanks for the posting the pic.


I know right Monty looks like he just woke up. Andy seems to be saying, 'Are we done yet?' David's eyes are bloodshot. Look into my bloodshot eyes and I will bring you over to the dark side Whoever took the pic, it's nice don't get me wrong, but tone done the flash just a little bit or stand a little farther back and then zoom in. Either way, I hope everything is going well in the studio. From his tweets it sounds like it is. Go Cook and the Anthemic...we can't wait for the new album!