Last week had us in the studio, seven years on, with Nino Errico once again at the helm at Autumn Road Studio. The Slow Down EP was pretty much a live recording - this time we were doing it "properly": separate tracks, overdubs, layers - the lot.
Discussions, voting and several lines of reasoning initially failed us but we managed to pick the three tunes to get down: Guidelines, F*ckbeast and Priest. Luckily it didn't resort to tossing a coin (or fighting). All three tunes are relatively new - some of you may have heard them at gigs this year.
Tom contemplates the distance to the garage and has brown flashbacks.
After a slow start setting and warming up Boz nailed the first drum track after lunch (and a beer). The other two came swiftly afterwards, preceding an afternoon of recording bass, guitars, lead guitar and eventually vocals and percussion.
Props to all the band for knowing the tunes well enough to be able to pull em all to pieces and record separate tracks, sections and layers... 12 guitar tracks on Priest was it? And there was no cut n' pasting for Boz so 40,000 babylon points to him for getting them down from start to finish.
Rich suggests "How I Love Thee Richmond Sausage" but Boz isn't convinced.
Thanks to Nino for his work, encouragement and feedback - the tunes will hopefully be here (and our Facebook and ReverbNation pages) very soon.
No guitar amplifiers were harmed during the production of this EP.
