THE MIXING DIARIES............FREEBASS.
At last the writing has been finished and apart from a few 'B' side things to finish the point has come to finish the project. I started work with Mani and Rourky, with Roger Lyons engineering on 2/1/2004, Since then we have had a lot to do, not least on my part New Order until we split up! DJ ing all over the place , gotta pay the bills aint we? So here are the tracks........ with Gary Briggs on vocals
1. NOT TOO LATE............
2. SECRETS AND LIES
3. THE ONLY ONES ALONE
4. LADY VIOLENCE
5. THE WORLD WONT WAIT
6. KILL SWITCH PT141
7. STALINGRAD (VOCALS BY HOOKY)
8. PLAN B
9. THE GOD MACHINE
10. SISTER SURRENDER
11. BURY ME STANDING
12. I'M A BELIEVER
13. YOU DON'T KNOW THIS ABOUT ME (feat.TIM BURGESS)
14. THE MILKY WAY IS OUR PLAYGROUND (feat. PETE WYLIE)
15. DARK STARR (feat. HOWARD MARKS)
16. LIVE TOMORROW YOU GO DOWN(feat. PETER HOOK)
WE began mixing on monday the 21st of july at 10.a.m, the reason i've picked Revolution Studios, a very experienced studio, loads of outboard which i felt was very important to soften the sound of the computer, New Order worked here a lot in the 80's 90's and Bernard and i did a lot of independent sessions here..... STONE ROSES, 52ND STREET, MONDAYS , STOCKHOLM MONSTERS, to name a few, it's still owned by the original owner ANDY McPHERSON one of his first clients was THE BUZZCOCKS their first album no less! So a lot of history here.............. JUSTIN RICHARDS is the engineer, who has just been working on the Bad Lieutenant session how weird is that! He has recovered now tho.........
PHIL MURPHY programming and Engineering, i can't stress how much he has helped without him we would definitely not be here now, he has also contributed KEYBOARDS , GUITAR and Backing VOX A GREAT ALL ROUNDER!
It is a complicated process transferring the audio from Cubase 4, so it has to be transferred in what are called STEMS to the studios PRO TOOLS SYSTEM then mixed by Justin with us over his shoulder.
First Track............ONLY ONES ALONE,,,,
which i'd say is a ROCK/POP SONG with killer Chorus, was very well ordered beforehand so was easish we got it up to mix standard in the evening finished at 8 (those all night sessions are long gone) review in the morning, with Gary's ovenight notes and Wow one down 15 to go ROCK ON HOOKY'09