Sound check and drumming day

Alright, so today was the first day of actual recording. Started out by borrowing some microphones from a mutual studio owner-friend. Arrived at the Clockwork Studio around 1.00 pm and after a brief (what we in Sweden call) "mellis" (consisting of bananas, one sad-looking cheese sandwich and some yoghurt), Stefan was ready to put mics on the drums and perform a sound check. After a while of sound checking we did a reference listening on Meshuggah's Nothing. Not to say we're going to copy their sound (also, AS IF there's any chance at all we could do that, considering their studio budget, and ours...) but to use merely as a point of reference for the continuing drum checking.

Eventually, we all found a drum sound we think can be printed on CD and made a part of metal history. (yeah).

Check out a video clip of David abusing his drums: LINK

"must....try...to...not....hit.... microphones... ggaarghh!"

Everything up 'n' running

Anyway, after a few hours of trying--David nailed the first song of the album: TACTILE. One of my favorites among the new ones.

See ya tomorrow.

Mikael accompanying David's drumming