- Apr 12, 2012
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I'm really liking this album, and the mix sounds open and relaxed, but full and powerful.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_uD5vh8_aM5Q5bcC2kXoWx6PSl6IOfKA
A few production notes from an interview from here:
This new record is a little more produced and sounds a little better than the older stuff. What was the decision behind that?
It depends on your definition of produced. Produced is a word that means many different things. In my mind, this record is a really raw record. I think it sounds amazing, because we did a full record at the Blasting Room. Those guys are second to none. They're just amazing. We tracked a lot of the instruments in another studio, but the drums were tracked there. Those guys are unparalleled the way that they can record drums for a band like ours. They mixed the record as well. It has a Blasting Room sound, which is fairly compressed. The way we recorded the record was the opposite of produced though. We demo'ed for four months live, until we got every song exactly as we wanted it to be. Rather than lose the live feel and lose the way Lagwagon's chemistry works, instead of deciding certain tempos and saying, "Ok, this song is basically 160 beats per minute and choruses are 164 bpm," I tempo mapped all of the live music. It took me four days, 12 hours a day. Every bar on that record is a different speed, and all of it honors the natural feel of the band. When we went into the studio, we were able to just replace everything. We just did the drums over, and then the bass, guitar and vocals, so that it sounds basically exactly the same when we play it. We used our own gear. That is the thing our band is pretty into. I produce records, and the way a record gets over produced, there are many things we don't do. It's because we don't really believe in them. When I listen to record, it sounds pretty much identical to the demos, but the tones are better. I will say sonically it sounds better than anything we've ever recorded. I love the way it sounds.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_uD5vh8_aM5Q5bcC2kXoWx6PSl6IOfKA
A few production notes from an interview from here:
This new record is a little more produced and sounds a little better than the older stuff. What was the decision behind that?
It depends on your definition of produced. Produced is a word that means many different things. In my mind, this record is a really raw record. I think it sounds amazing, because we did a full record at the Blasting Room. Those guys are second to none. They're just amazing. We tracked a lot of the instruments in another studio, but the drums were tracked there. Those guys are unparalleled the way that they can record drums for a band like ours. They mixed the record as well. It has a Blasting Room sound, which is fairly compressed. The way we recorded the record was the opposite of produced though. We demo'ed for four months live, until we got every song exactly as we wanted it to be. Rather than lose the live feel and lose the way Lagwagon's chemistry works, instead of deciding certain tempos and saying, "Ok, this song is basically 160 beats per minute and choruses are 164 bpm," I tempo mapped all of the live music. It took me four days, 12 hours a day. Every bar on that record is a different speed, and all of it honors the natural feel of the band. When we went into the studio, we were able to just replace everything. We just did the drums over, and then the bass, guitar and vocals, so that it sounds basically exactly the same when we play it. We used our own gear. That is the thing our band is pretty into. I produce records, and the way a record gets over produced, there are many things we don't do. It's because we don't really believe in them. When I listen to record, it sounds pretty much identical to the demos, but the tones are better. I will say sonically it sounds better than anything we've ever recorded. I love the way it sounds.
