Recording the new album - Day Three

Timo was already there when I arrived today in the afternoon, he was checking out yesterday's bass tracks and deciding which ones needed to be redone before going into guitar mode. It's not exactly a tremendously adventurous or creative thing (it's actually quite boring listening just to drums and bass), but as with a house, you have to check that the foundings are solid enough before starting with the decoration.



At this point I must again express my utmost fascination with Jürgen and his ears. It's incredible what the guy can listen in a take, song or whatever. We'd be thinking "oh, great take, so cool", and he'll just nod and mumble "that finger accidentally hit a string while changing the chord". And we'd listen to it, and, exactly where he said, there was some minimal noise... incredible. Watching him edit and tweak knobs is a show by itself. Reminds me of those kids in front of the game console hitting knobs and twisting buttons at incredible speed and still getting to the next level. That's Jürgen more or less, all ten fingers on the sound desk or the keyboard, concentrated look, and in the blink of an eye he has edited the song to a reasonable thing from the mess he had before...

Then it was time to record two songs from Monday and redo a few from yesterday. "No Better" was especially fun to do for Timo, as he always remembers the right progression and key changes...



When we had finally got what we wanted with the rhythm tracks, it was finally time to start with guitars. About fucking time! As it was already late enough, we decided to start with an easy one, and the choice fell on "What's The Voltage William?", which could be a nice opener as well.

Recording guitars is where Jürgen has more fun at, which is really nice for me. We just did two rhythm tracks, one with the Les Paul into my Peavey Classic 30 and the Orange box, and the stereo track with the Les Paul into TWO Vox AC30 (a really vintage one and a top boost one) running in stereo with distortion provided by a Marshall Guv'nor pedal. Amazing how those little cheap pedals can sound... After just one take we decided to hold it there until the next session. The song really kicks ass already now, can't wait to hear it finished with vocals and shit.



Anyway, another productive day. Three days and already into guitar recording mode... yuhu!!

Songs done:
"Berlin": bass
"Scent": bass
"Stitch The Memories": bass
"Stroboscope": bass
"Follow You Around": bass
"No Better": bass
"What's The Voltage William?": bass, rhythm guitars