Divine Insanity – First Studio Session
28.02.2005, 12:13:
Well then. My day started at Theon's at 5.30 when the radio-alarm switched on and Radio City came blasting out so that we could make it in time to the Inkfish Studio at 9:30 After 3 or 4 hour sleep, we watched the prize giving ceremony for the Oscars, then called the others to make sure that they were up and moving. Apart from Christiana and us the others would have all overslept, so we were having problems sticking to the schedule from the start:D Only 45 minutes late we had the essential gear and the band packed into 2 cars and heading for Helsinki,,,,,,
(to be continued)
Julian
28.02.2005, 13:45:
Ok, ..I’ve come to this pc after doing the drum check and we had a pretty damn good sound right from the off! :D but this is where I left you. Something strange had happened (especially for Lovex). We were on time when we arrived at the studios, 15 mins ahead of schedule even! We went together to see what sort of place the studio was, the fetched all the stuff from the cars the set up the drums and the rest of the band headed off to check out the hotel. I stayed with the technician and Bullhead’s Boss. Then about 12:30 we started the drum sound check, which lasted about an hour, and then the others came back and now it’s time to get something to eat! Yep. I'll be back :P
After eating we came back and demoed Guardian Angel in one take. Then we agreed to do some of it again differently. Then started the recording for the drumming on Guardian Angel. There was a little stress when we had to play the new revision we’d agreed but it went well and after a few takes we had it in the can and it sounded great..! Then we left for the hotel etc…:)
Julian
1.3.2005, 10:40:
Up at 8.30 today and after a decent breakfast we made it to Inkfish by 10. Now the boys are jamming with the acoustic guitars and I’m here writing this diary and soon we should start the demo for Bleeding and work it out and then get the drums down and so it goes on.!:D
Julian
01.03.2005, 16:08:
Well, the same as last time, now we had to do the demos J I should say that” this time we edited the drums for Guardia Angel” but in fact we reworked Bleeding and now and it’s really going the right way! More “hit potential”. When we had the arrangement pretty much agreed we played a few pieces through and then went to get some pizza.. Then we finished recording Bleeding and headed for the hotel. The band has the rest of the day free and tomorrow we’ve got the bass to record and should get started with the guitars. Maybe Thursday we can do the synths and guitar sounds and Friday the vocals. Yeah, whatever! Let’s keep it real. :P
Julian
02.03.2005, 12:45:
Right then. This song has gone pretty much the same as the previous ones. Breakfast at the hotel and Jason and I made for the studios at 10. First we listened to the edited drums for Bleeding and a few pieces from the new 51code. Then we tried a few bass options and decided on Jason’s own Ibanez. The others started to get everything ready for recording so that we were waiting for Jason to finish the bass work but I couldn’t interrupt a genius at work! Enough of that then. . When the bass was ready we stated to wind up the guitar sounds and maybe something got recorded…we’ll seeJ
Julian
02.03.2005, 14:25:
Now the bass for Guardian Angel is ready and it sounds good! There was some fine tuning to be done because on Monday we re-arranged some pieces so radically that the base lines had to be totally reworked, but all seems ok now. We started recording the bass for Bleeding and chucked out all the non essential crowd from the control room. So, Theon and Christian left for the city centre Jason and Vivian are in the control room and I’ve no idea where Sammy is:D …get back to you….
Julian
04.03.2005, 17:17:
Hija, I didn’t get around to writing much yesterday, when nothing much happened. My part was finished on Tuesday.. but how did yesterday go then (?) J 10 am as normal, we were all at the studio. Most of the day went recording the guitars,and the rest of it trying out different synth sounds. Today Christian and Theo arrived about 9ish and first Christian recorded some synth sounds then Theo started singing and now Bleeding is ready and Guardian Angel is on the final straight. .The band, except for me and Theo, just left for the Cumulus Hotel and in the evening they’re going to the Cable Factory for Kiss FM’s anniversary party. Theon will be leaving when the vocals are ok and I’ll be catching a train for Tampere and Jani’s place in an hour. It’s got pretty tiring in the studio towards the end of the week, especially the days when I haven’t been playing. Next week the last of the guitar and synth parts and the backing vocals. Then there’s the mixing and mastering. Later we’ll record the b-side for our first single. Jup, my job here is done, so thanks to the band, Inkfish, Ava Hotel and Alepa ! J During the week at the studio Lovex managed two songs nearly completely finished and emptied over 150 bottles of different shapes, sizes and flavours.:D That’s it then , seeya…
with <3>
12.3.2005
Helloh=)
I thought I’d write something too, when when apart from Julian, no one else has been doing much. The situation now is that on 15.3. Christian and I will be in the studio together and at the end of the day everything should be ready to master the first two singles
The first week, Thursday 3.3 we recorded the guitars. We worked on the mikes and then tried a few different guitars. By the end of it we’d used 4 different guitars, 3 Les Pauls and 1 Stratocaster. I think Sammy played it all on his own Steve Vai Jem.
After we’d tinkered with the sounds for a few hours we got down to the playing. We recorded guitars on Thursday 3.3 and Monday 7.3 and got it in the can. Some it went down real easy and some was a bit harder. The new arrangements gave us the most problems because we hadn’t had a chance to practice them at all before getting into the studio but it was all worth while. Some of the new work-ups changed the whole framework of the songs and there are some great new killer riffs. You’ll hear them =) but I can already say that they are the best stuff we’ve ever done. Thanks to the producer who made us produce the new riffs and who really got the best from us.
The second week went fairly easily. Just a mild concussion when Christian ‘s and my head hit the asphalt after a night out on Wednesday. With Theo’s help I made it from the Maria Hospital back to the Hotel about 9:30. Christian got back a little earlier. I had to stay for observation because of the concussion. The stupid head causes pain to the whole body. No more about that.
During week 2 we played all the guitar pieces and the synth sections and also did a lot of mixing. The mixing took a lot of time when sometimes just the vocals were on 30 tracks. But oh boy what a sound we got, just what we wanted, big and beautiful. Some critics will say that we’ve over produced our music, but what can we do if we really dig this finely finished sound.
Of the hotel evenings, the sauna and Dead or alive 3 were in heavy use and I bet that if we had a Dead or alive tournament with any other band, we’d crush them. We played so much that all the worlds’ 15 strike combo hyper killers became well known =)
See ya!!!
Yours: Vivian Sin’amor
