Need A Little Christmas Music?

It’s here. Christmas is approaching and all the malls, elevators, and radio stations are playing Christmas music non-stop. Well a few years back a buddy of mine and I were tired of the same old holiday songs so we decided to do some fresh arrangements on some classic songs. That’s right people, we recorded a Christmas album. Not just any old recording though…it was totally a cappella (i.e. vocals only).

We Became Jukebox Logic

We grabbed up a couple more singers we knew (even got my Dad to sing on “We Three Kings” and “What Child Is This”), formed a group (Jukebox Logic) and went to town. We recorded two Christmas albums actually, one back in 2006 and the other in 2007. I thought it would be fun to throw the better of the two up on NoiseTrade so people could download the tunes and start listening right away.

Please feel free to take a listen to the tracks in the widget below and download them for free if you like them! If you are feeling super generous this Christmas season, then please donate any amount after your download (NoiseTrade calls it “tips”). I would greatly appreciate it!

How We Recorded It

For those of you who are interested in how we recorded it, here’s what went down. We took the arrangements from Finale, dumped them into Pro Tools as a MIDI file so we could hear each part played through a piano plugin. We added a basic click, and then tracked our parts one at a time. That’s right, we didn’t actually sing together at all.

We tripled all of the parts except solos of course, edited it up nicely if anything was out of tune or out of place, and then mixed it down. Everything was tracked through a Rode NT1-a straight into my Digi 002. That’s it people. Hope you all enjoy the music!