Day1: The sound check day

So here we are, the first day of recording what will become our third full lenght album - hopefully. It's a typical autumn day in Gothenburg, Sweden: rainy and grey. What can be better to enter a warm and cozy vintage studio with loads of atmosphere and history. Can't even mention half of all the crazy instruments and stuff that are collected and in good shape at the shelfs of Music A Matic. And not to mention all the big bands creating incredible records here.

We met up with Henrik (one of the owners of the studio) around lunch time to get shown around in what will be our home for the next four days. And also to make Magnus Lindberg, our producer / sound engineer, familiar with the equipment.

Pretty soon we started to put our stuff in the right places, trying out different amps and guitar sounds. Magnus and Henrik started to discuss what microphones  to use and putting them in right positions. I think we ended up with about 15 for the drums, and some for the guitars. And it was time for the most boring part of the recording process, the sound check.  It took way longer than expected, mostly because of guitar sounds that wasn’t too comfortable. Lame reverb, cranky distortion, noisy sounds on the clean sound etc etc.

After a few hours, a numberous liters of coffee and a pizza each we was quite satisfied and tried to use the last hours of the evening to put the foundation of the song "401 Lwa" on tape. Speeded on Hustler Energy drinks we tried to loosen up and feel relaxed to make as few takes as possible. Two hours later we was satisfied with the different parts recorded, and just did some easy guitar overdubs, before we called it a day. Some went home for sleep, some decided to continue working out wonders... The work continues 10 am tomorrow.