Noise Day

Today was our day to make all the horrific noises we could handle to fill out tracks. Started out with Tom wailing away on the Jazzmaster with a drum stick through a mess of pedals as Carlos screamed into the mic. Oh, and the mic? A set of headphones broken in half in reverse wiring. It was later suspended in the middle of a huge bass drum as a floating echo mic which we could also beat on while tracking. Ran old vinyl records through a minispeaker mic'd with the Bova ball, looped back through the Lexicon Vortex and Kaoss Pad. Drums super-gated and fed into bitcrushers. Horrid, horrid, horrid, excellent!

Ended the day with guitars, redoing some earlier parts. Jazzmaster into AC30 and Sound City at once, a little compression and grind from an old Marshall Guv'nor. Bova Ball/m76 and MD421/2108 on the AC30, I5/2108 on Sound City. Started into some heavy fuzzed out chunka-chunka stuff but we decided we were just being impatient; with the tracks in an utterly unmixed state there wasn't the surge of sound we need at the end yet. We set out on a misguided heavy guitar mission but came to our senses... there just needs to be some dynamics built in around the bass mixing and drums to give the end of the song the push it needs. Power chords, be gone.