Steve Hewitt's Facebook Update on Oct. 2, 2009

요즘 내가 포럼질 하느라 정신이 팔린 사이에

휴잇씨는 며칠 전 10월 2일에 업뎃하겠다는 teaser성 status를 띠우더니

드뎌 우리 추석 명절 연휴 중에 또 새로운 Story를 페북에 업뎃했다.

May - June 2008
After finishing the first set of backing tracks, I relocated back to my home studio to complete the second batch of songs. This was a six week process which was immediately followed by a return to Moles.

사진: Me across the mixing desk @ Moles

July 2008
We began recording the next five tracks, still using the usual musical suspects but now augmented with a double bass and a three hundred year old cello played by one of the UK's finest cellists - Beth Porter.

(와우! 3백년 된 첼로에서 나는 소리는 어떨까... 그나저나 첼로가 들어간 음악을 휴잇씨가 만드는구나..)

사진: Beth Porter (with Babel). Thanks to garyjonesphoto.com

This session lasted almost a month, recording, refining, experimenting and finally arriving at the point where I felt we had a good basis for a ten track album.

사진: Nicks' pedals

August 2008
Now that the musical tracks were complete, it was time for me to put down my sticks and lay down the vocals, coming out from behind the kit and fronting these new songs. Backing vocals were provided by Onalle from Roni Size Reprazent and Emily Reid - my daughter.

(OMG!!! He's singing!!!! o_o)

사진: onalee - the amazing backing vocalist

In this session I did all of the guide vocals for all of the tracks. After a month of full on recording and playing all the drum parts I was exhausted.

사진: Me after a (really) long day

I went home for a few weeks and then made a decision to go back to the studio and concentrate purely on my vocals. Donneye was very instrumental in this area, guiding me through the process and with his help I was able to get the result I always wanted. I have always provided backing vocals on my previous recording projects so this was not completely alien to me although I'm sure this is going to come as a surprise to you. Trust me, it's all good!

(맞아요, 정말 빅뉴스!!!)

사진: Nick laying down some guitar

September - December 2008
Most of the studio time was now spent working on the rough board mixes for the individual tracks, seeing what the possibilities were for each track with various mixes. Exciting times and grinding times, but also it helped me accumulate my vision for the final possibilities of this record.

Jan - March 2009
This period was spent doing the final and complete master mixes. A very important time and a very exciting time. Also, a lot of pressure to get things right as I am now in a position where I have written, recorded and produced an album myself. After March we retired from the studio, exhausted, deaf, tired and battered.

Some time off was required to recoup, regroup and make sense of what had been accomplished over the previous 18 months.

사진: Nick, Alan, Jon, Donneye and Paul @ Moles

April 2008
I returned to Moles for some final tweaks to the mixes. once this was done the album was sent to

Los Angeles for mastering at Bernie Grundman by Brian 'Big Bass' Gardner (Foo Fighters, Janes Addiction and many more). It took about a month for the test cuts to come back from L.A. once I approved the test cuts we sent the whole record back to L.A. for the final mastering.

사진: Donneye, Jon and Paul and I @ Moles.

Again, thanks for your continued support and all your messages and good wishes, they are much

appreciated. Next time I will start to formally introduce my new band to you. Keep the faith.
Love Steve.

플라시보를 안 지 얼마 되지 않아서 나 혼자만 모르고 있었던 건진 모르겠지만,

휴잇씨가 노래를, 그것도 새 밴드의 리드 싱어를 맡았다는 사실이 내겐 꽤 빅 뉴스다.

게다가 플라시보에서 작사작곡은 몰스달 몫인 줄 알았는데 혹시 휴잇 씨도 작사작곡에 참여했던 걸까?

그동안 리드 싱어가 누굴까 되게 궁금했는데 결국 본인이었어...게다가 작곡에 프로듀싱까지!

역시 휴잇 씨, 실력 있는 드러머 그 이상의 뮤지션이었군요...^^

Story III 까지 읽고나니 왠지 더 흥미진진해지는걸?^^

아마 지금 Steve Hewitt 팬사이트에선 난리가 났을 거다...ㅋㅋㅋ