Cottage Sessions

I finished the drum editing in time. Sami, Riku, Olli and mr. Sorvali are currently recording bass and guitars in a cottage near Lahti. We are again recording the DI signals and will re-amp through amps later. One thing that is different this time is that the monitoring is done using a real amp/cabinet. It's in the same room as the monitors (zero latency you know). They are going to spend five days there. 

Photos, videos and more information will be available when they come back.

Drum Recording Pt 6

Thursday 9.10.2008

I recorded the drums for the missing instrumental song today. I did it by myself and just played it by listening the programmed drums (by Riku). We have never played this song together, so it was a very unusual approach. For us at least. I have been editing and tightening the other drum tracks every night after sunday. A lot of work, but we want to make it super tight this time.

I also visited Chartmakers today, because one of my recent studio projects (Adastra) was mastered there. I really liked the results, so maybe we will use it on our album too? Definately one of the best mastering studios in Europe.

Drum Recording Pt 5

Sunday 5.10.2008

Sometime after twelve I took my bike and drove to the studio. The sun was shining and everything looked so promising. When I finally arrived to the studio I was already sweating like Chuck Norris! My goal was to record the remaining two songs. Actually three, but one of them is an instrumental track and I haven't even heard it yet. Without goint too much into details, it was the shittiest day so far. I really had to push myself to get the job done. Finally I nailed the main songs (in 11493 different takes) but the instrumental track still needs to be recorded later. There will be no other sessions in the studio for a while, so we can leave everyhing like they are at the moment. I will start the drum editing tomorrow and hopefully don't have to stay up too many nights while doing it.

Drum Recording Pt 4

Saturday 4.10.2008

I finished three songs today. My father visited the studio and drilled a hole to the brickwall. Now we have this piece of artwork on our live room wall! It really helps us with the future projects, because now we can just say "look at the sign you fu*ker!!!" Well, actually I was looking at the sign today... If you like it, check out FaderWear!

Drum Recording Pt 3

Friday 3.10.2008

I was meant to record some drums yesterday, but got sick and decided to cancel some violent activities and do it today. Luckily Matias was fine with it. When we continued punching one of the songs recorded earlier, we noticed that the third tom track was missing. Well, not actually missing but it was just pure silence! After doing some test, we found out that the problem was in the mic preamp. Oh shit! We have recorded two songs without the third tom close mic! I'm not going to record those songs again, so I need to do some fixing in the editing stage. It can be done, but still sucks! 

Riku recorded a few more backing tracks and that actually took most of our time today. We needed to program the tempo tracks for two songs. It sucked, because there were some kinky 3/16 2/16 arragements. So, we wasted our studio time with all this nonsense. Don't try this at home, kids.