A Pressing Question

How do you make a pile of wax like this: Into this: Easy…you just find a pressing plant and, there you have it. Not so fast! First, you’ve got to get all of your duckies in a row. Of course the pressing plant needs the stampers but, they also need the label art and the […]

Mastering for Vinyl

(A look at the cutting engineer’s room. Camron Henry’s the man!!!) We’d completed our recording! All of the music was recorded at Williamson Magnetic Recording to 1” magnetic tape and then mixed down to 1/4” tape…just the way we wanted it. We had 13 songs that clocked in at over 50 minutes. That’s too long […]

All Mixed Up

By the end of February, all of our tracks were “in the can” (as they say in the biz). Mark from Williamson Magnetic Recording had given us a rough mix of all 13 tunes and we prepped for our upcoming mixing sessions by listening excruciatingly close to each song, taking notes and discussing amongst ourselves […]

Then there were 13

So which one of your children are your favorites? Essentially, that’s what we were initially thinking when deciding which songs to record. But we changed our approach to consider how best our songs might present when grouped together, the way people used to listen to a record, a whole side at a time. Over the […]

In the Beginning…

BingBong started planning to record in 2015.  We originally planned on traveling to a recording studio in North Carolina but logistics got the best of us.  In early 2016 we began recording demos and really worked on our song arrangements.  The added attention to detail brought our live performance up a notch. A couple of […]