Recording: Who, What, When, Why, How

Hi, we are Dehlia Low. We’re a young bluegrass band from Asheville, N.C. that includes myself, Anya Hinkle (vocals, fiddle), and Stacy Claude (vocals, guitar), Aaron Balance (dobro), Bryan Clendenin (mandolin, vocals) and Greg Stiglets (bass, vocals).

We’ve been together now about a year and a half. We’re in a place that many “up-and-coming” bands find themselves…we need a CD. A full-length, professionally recorded, mixed and mastered disk for sale, promotion, and general ascent into the stratosphere of success that every musician hopes to find him or herself inhabiting.

(As the old saying goes, there are literally tens of dollars to be made playing bluegrass music and we want to make sure we have every opportunity to secure these financial opportunities).

This is not our first recording—our eight-song demo/EP was recorded in a basement studio with no real isolation (so at least we didn’t lose that “very live sound”). At the moment we have a whole lineup of original songs that we’ve already been performing and are arranged and ready for recording. What is a band to do?…