After weeks and weeks of pre-production, we’ve finally started recording!

Last weekend we spent three days in Different Fur studios in the Misson (not four blocks from Tori’s place), laying down basic tracks. The studio’s quite interesting as they still have an old high-end analog mixing desk and can record to tape. So the idea was to record the whole band performing “live”, and get (at a minimum) rich and energetic bass and drums – although if we picked up good takes / pieces of other stuff we’ll use them too.

It was pretty intense… in three days (more like two and a half allowing for setup and hitches – do not mention 15ips to Buddy!) we got 2-3 good takes of 15 songs – all new except for one highly reworked cover (which is still top secret!). And by the end, we were all pretty happy but drained..

Now we’ve bounced the results across to hard disk and will going into a all-digital for a month or two to work on instrumental tracks and vocals / harmonies. But listening to the rough (straight-through) mixes today, it sounds like we’ve got some good stuff to act as the foundation…