If you’re not familiar with The Impossibles, then you are missing out on some pretty slick rock music. The band got together at the recent FUN FUN FUN Fest in Austin, Tx. and we had a chance to chat with them about their creative process while recording in the studio.
SeagateCreative: What’s a new or unique way that you’ve taken an idea from concept to execution?
The Impossibles: Recently mixing all forms of professional and consumer level tools has become a great way to take the song from the “demo” to the finished product in a way that allows you to retain that original energy.
For example on our most recent release one of the songs has a piano part recorded on my phone. Years ago retaining this kind of element would have been an involved process that likely would have resulted in the part being redone more professionally, which might lose some of that original energy.
SeagateCreative: What’s your process for debating if an idea’s worth pursuing?
The Impossibles: Usually I will come up with a melody or lyrical idea, and consciously not record it or write it down in any way until I recall it at least once, usually a day or so later. The idea being that some amount of distance will give me some perspective and if I forget the idea, how great could it really be?
SeagateCreative: What’s your process in the studio? Walk us through the steps you took to record a favorite track.
The Impossibles: These days “the studio” for tracking is my living room and laptop. The great news is that we can do a solid job recording the basic tracks and then get the benefits of a real studio at the mix stage. This means we’ve got all of the flexibility and excitement of the home studio environment when putting the songs down, but the glue and polish you get from a console mix in a real studio.
In the case of our new song “Come Back” it started as a Garageband demo made on an iPhone and iPad that was transferred to a MacBook Pro for additional tracking in Logic Pro X, then finally those tracks were uploaded to a studio in Phoenix to be mixed on a Pro Tools HD system through a Trident Audio Console.
SeagateCreative: How do you use Seagate hard drives in your work?
The Impossibles: Hard drives are really the modern day equivalent of the 2 inch analog tape used when we first started as a band. New technology like Thunderbolt means that transfer speeds approach what was only possible with internal drives a few years ago.
With Seagate’s HDs we can plug and play using thunderbolt for the ultimate in speed and flexibility, and the affordability and expandability gives us exactly what we’re looking for when recording to a hard drive as the “master.”
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