So all of this week we have been at Ghost Town Studios again beginning to record our second album with Ross Halden.
The plan for the week was to get the rough skeleton(drums and rhythm guitars) of 3 songs in place. The three songs are nameless at the moment, lets call them 'fast' 'King song' and 'spikey.' Tuesday, day number 1 was spent getting a delightfully good drum sound and tracking 'fast.' Ross is a very patient man, where ever we record we do do a good job of pushing engineers and producers to the limit.....Thanks Ross you are a nice man....
Once again Matt 'Barry' Reid steps up to the plate recording some absolutely ridiculous drum tracks that fuck with my head and i know how the songs should go. (at least i think i do....im sure we'll find out....)
On day 2 (wednesday) we finished tracking the drums for the other 2 songs, Matt's shuffle on 'King song' was a particular highlight for me, good work Barry! Having 2/3 takes of each song enabled us to choose the best takes but by and large 90% of what Matt recorded was gold......
Thursday was spent tweaking drums and editing the sound, it sounds massive!!! like a giant elephant crossed with a giant crocodile crossed with a giant peacock crossed with a giant, yes folks that massive ---John Bonham who???
I enojoyed reading Ross' fine collection of 'Tape Op' magazine, especially the sections where Engineers and producers just moan.....boo hoohoo im sorry you had to master the new Metallica record that mustve been such a shame for you.......
Friday was guitar tracking day, all the rhythm guitars were tracked for 'spikey' including some massive chunky rhythm from Stick which sounds mental on 'the marching riff' This was all completed roughly by about 2:30am Saturday morning by that point everything went a bit delirous, overdubs then turned backwards, recording computer speakers through a phaser.......was it any good...................
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