Mikael's 3:rd guitar day + bass

I (Mikael) entered the studio around lunch-time and recorded all the clean guitar parts on the songs. Took a break and started working on getting a good bass sound. Our friend Erik Larsson was kind to let me borrow his Ibanez 6-string bass, which sounds very nice.

Mikael looks pretty happy playing that bass.

The setup for recording bass is fairly simple: The bass guitar signal goes to a V-amp Pro (clean channel), the signal then proceeds from the send out jack to another V-amp Pro (distorted channel). Both V-amps then goes from the XLR outputs to a TL Audio preamp.

After finding the tone, it was time to record. If my memory serves correctly, I recorded the bass tracks in the following order:
1 - REMOTE VIEWS
2 - SPAWN
3 - CLONING ASSEMBLY
4 - THE BRAINSHAPED MIND
5 - DISSOLVING SOUL FRAGMENTS
6 - TACTILE
7 - ROOM 101

Here's a clip of Mikael playing some parts of TACTILE. Notice the redneck-playing style.

With a few chips-breaks and a picking-up-the-drummer-break, recording the bass took approximately 4 hours. After that I started working on the guitar solo tone before ending the day's work session around 19:00.

Found this in today's newspaper. Thanks to whoever wrote that!

Check in tomorrow for a full update about the solo recordings! Until then, check out these pictures of Mikael and David - this is what will happen if you're practically living in the studio for 9 days straight. Remember that, kids!