We arrived at the Brachial Studios in Traun (AT) at half past 11pm last night, not much time and energy left to do something intelligent. At least I managed to light up a warm and comfy fire, 100% Neanderthal-style. Everyone was sitting around with their high-tech homerecording equipment and taped some last minute ideas. That’s it for “preparation”. The last note was hit around 4 am.
We slept ’till 12 and woke up freezing (!) and hungry. It was Eric’s and Schwede’s Job to take care of the fire at night but they fucked it up. Everyone was suffering because of them, useless hobos!! Anyway, “heating” is one of our top prios (besides writing songs of course) so we bought some wood and coal, as well as an electric heater that eats up 100000 megawatt/hour. Perfect.
It took us another 5 hours to finally get our recording/songwriting-setup running. Here’s what we do: Philip has got his own room for his drums. Everything is mic’ed since we plan to keep his drumtracks. The guitar and bass-amps are situated in another room, also mic’ed but just for demo’ing. Schwede, Eric, Raphael and me are in a third room, sitting in a circle. Everyone has got a rough mix of all instruments on their headphones while we’re playing. When we’re done with a song we simply have to press “record”, that’s all.
Tonight we wrote and demo’ed 2 new songs. It all came pretty natural and it didn’t take us very long to finalize the basic structure. There’s still some work to be done concerning leadguitars and vocal-lines but we’re pretty happy with the result so far. It’s a mid-tempo rock-hymn (Song9) and a pretty boysetsfire’ish hardcore track (Song 8). We already brought 7 songs to the studio that only need to be revised, that’s the explanation for the strange count.
The plan for the rest of the night: Food, internet, relaxing & working on lyrics.
Chris – The Jock
