Semi Mental

Everyone say 'well done' to Dan - while I took a couple of days away from the studio to get some other stuff done (i'm the only person I know who takes time off to go to work), he cleaned up all the trcks we've recorded so far and made it easier for to start mixing when we've done the vocals.

So what the hell is cleaning up the tracks? Basically, when we hit 'record' the song plays a little before the person recording has to start, so they can get the feel of the tempo, and know when to come in. So before every take there are these little 'silence' section of recording (ours usually last like 2 or 4 bars). But they aren't silent....oh no.....everyone makes little noises, moving hands up and down guitars, clicking drum sticks together, talking a little, fuzz from amps. So it's that stuff that Dan has been cleaning up - we make it proper silence and you'd never know we were so sloppy in the first place - hell yeah!!

It's one of the most boring job in the recording process and big respect to dan for doing it (and saving everyone else the job.

I'm off to record vocals...like, now. Then we bail and head for the UEA to see Biffy Clyro, yey!!

See you all later,

Max.