We are recording three songs for our upcoming demo - named 'The Carrion King' - at our own leisure in the peace of our Sepultura-smelling rehearsal hole. This will add up to 15 minutes of music, freshly written within the two-year cycle of our recording schedule (quality over quantity, ladies and gentlemen..).
Anyways, the difference to the first demo which we also did in our rehearsal place is that we now have some proper equipment to record all the stuff to make it actually sound good. You know, getting drum tracks to actually different and multiple tracks, not just mixin for a stereo recording, not doing everything within one day, all that jazz..
Why not a proper studio like The Circle, then? The Drop Hammer studio was pretty much concentrated awesome last time around, but it would've cost us a lot more to go there and give us a arbitrary time limit to the whole process - which can lead to cutting corners in some things deemed necessary. Of course, if we should feel like it, we can always give the raw tracks to someone outside the band to do all the post-production stuff like mixing and mastering. But anyway, one of the purposes of this exercise is to get both raw and professional-sounding recording out to the public by just ourselves.
But I'm probably getting ahead of myself talking about the process as whole, so I'll just shut the hell up and give you the opportunity to check out videos of Juuso drumming a song called 'A Graceful Exit':
Video 1
Video 2
Oh, I forgot to mention that we got the drums to all the songs tracked down on Good Friday pretty quickly. Just because, you know, Juuso is that damned good. The best part is that we won't have to resort to unnatural clickety-click fixing in the post-production phase, we rather corrected every mistake there and then by playing only; this will make the record sound much more natural. That's Swath's brand of slut metal for you - a big no-no to sampled drums and ulterior motives!
Be seeing you,
- Teemu
