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A U G U S T 1 9 : T H
Hi folks!
It's time to update this section, isn't it? Of all un-updated sections
of this site, this is probably the worst. But, butter late than early!!??!
Anyway, the lack of updates doesn't mean that we haven't done anything
in the studio during this time. The recording of
the drums where finished in the middle june something, don't remember
exactly. Just took four months!! And the songs have changed pretty much
during this time. Hopefully to the better.
So, than we started with the guitars. As with anything else, we
immendlty got problems. When we miced my beloved
Vox amplifier, and started to record, we noticed a strange hiss on the
tracks. It showed out that it was something
wrong with the amp. usually, hiss-sounds like this disapear if you play
loud enough, but not this time. Still don't know what the problems is.
Had to try some new setups with the equipment which belonged to the
studio. After a lot of tweaking, we found a real
good sound, using an old Ada preamp along with Marshall tube poweramp.
The producer was very enthusiastic, he had used
the Ada preamp himself several years ago, but probably forgot about it.
With a good guitar sound, I thought we should do the songs pretty
quickly. After all, I have written almost all the
music, and we had rehearsed on most of the material for at least a year.
Wrong again; The arrangements and the drum beats had changed pretty much
during the recording, so we had to change several parts. And the
producer, who is a very good rythm guitarplayer
himself, had tons of good ideas about different ways to play rythms,
which I never thought of myself. Far beyond my "atmosphere".
This meant that I spent a good amount of hours in the studio
just practising on new ways to play the riffs and rythm figures.
But again, I think everything changed to the better,
and it really feels likes even the weaker songs have developed a
lot! Of course, we don't have any weak songs, but
everythings is relative, and compared to the real killer songs, I
suppose some other songs are weaker than that... ;)
This thuesday, August 16:th, I finished the sixth song (we are still
just talking about rythm guitars here). Since
this song is a little bit more than 8 minutes long (longest on the
album), I really have to say it was the fastest recording so far. The
other songs have taken several days each. Played some really, in lack of
a better word, stupid riffs, which definitly
aren't riffs you play in a music store, trying to impress on someone.
But the producer is very sure about that they
will fit very well in the final arrangement with bass, keyboards and
vocals. Which we haven't added yet. So I suppose we just have to trust
him.
Will try to update this more often during the autumn! |
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