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Lymbago, final round (Day 7)

cons_monitorOk, sorry for the late post, but I wasn’t there at the beginning of the week.

Basically, we completed everything. Yeah really. Just on time :-) Celltool was our target of choice for the morning and from the afternoon, we worked on HJ and Salami.

bowo HJ was difficult to complete because of the bow. We have tried to find the same ambiance as recorded at Arras, that was clearly not easy.

mehdi_poseSalami was easier than expected and Mehdi managed to find a solo in a reasonable amount of time. Anyway, we still have a few things to record, but that’s really bonus. We have the essential. Mission complete ! :D

What I can say is that was a really great experience. Very intense but I think we were all happy to live it, that was just fucking great. Also, we’re all happy with the result, which is just awesome.

To try to sum up this crazy week, here are a few numbers of what happened, in random order :

  • 19+ Pizzas
  • 37,2 Gb of music (!!)
  • 1 dead hard drive
  • Litters of shit soda
  • Around 15 tracks per song
  • Litters of coffee
  • 7 days
  • Around 100 hours of work (!!!)
  • 1 BBQ
  • A few beerspizza
  • 7 Songs
  • 10+ Pasta boxes
  • 50+ Cables
  • 1 unusable bass
  • 1 unusable amp
  • 13 Microphones
  • 9 Guests

Of course, we now have another BIG work to complete : the mix. People are used to say this formula : “One day of recording equals to two days of mix”. Considering that we spent about 15 hours a day, we therefore have around 30 hours of mix per song. So… we have 7 songs, 7*30, result : 210 hours of mix. *GGG*. So, you now understand why the album can’t be out in a few days. We really still have a lot of work.

I’ll try to update this blog as soon as we make some progress on the mix, so keep an eye on it ! :-)

Rock’n’roll !

PS: For the specialists, the Tubefire8 and Ardour worked very well and I’ll use them for sure during the next session !

Lymbago, from dawn till dusk (Day 4)

Fuck. I’m late. It’s more and more difficult to wake up on time for us, we’re accumulating the effects of many missing hours of sleep (we do about 15hours of studio per day…). Hopefully, the spirit here keeps us motivated and we’re doing everything we can to succeed.

We have three guests today : Laurine, Chloé & Elvina ! Cheers :-)

diDo you remember our DI box problem yesterday ? We were very lucky. I was near the Gambetta metro, waiting for Laurine and I met a friend who works at the Euroguitar shop. He could sell me a DI before the shop opens. Yeah !

The morning was dedicated to finish the bass. We planned to finish around 3PM and… we finished at 6PM. Hum. Anyway, Diego managed to record everything even if some songs (especially HJ) was, as expected, an obstacle course for him.

It was time for Louis to start recording. He did Stomach fast and we were happy with the sound. To save a bit of time, I then decided to record both guitars to finish the songs one by one.

orange_ampWe therefore moved the Orange amp of Mehdi to the big room so that he could get a better sound. After a few minutes of micro placement, we indeed managed to get a great sound. Louis was jealous. Yeah really :D. That’s right, Mehdi’s sound was much better. So, we moved his amp to the big room too. The problem is his sound was still the same… I therefore fired the jamin500visual scope and we found the problem : his sound was, again, very low in the mediums. After spending minutes (hours?) of tweaking his GT-6 pedalboard and his amp, we couldn’t get the sound we wanted.

We therefore decided to give up and bring my Brunetti amp the next day and use it instead of Louis’ amp.

At this point, we couldn’t do anything better, so we came back home knowing that the following day was going to be very busy.

Lymbago, Day 2

This one will be short since we’re really short on time to stick to the planning and I can’t find a single minute to write the daily reports. But, anyway, if we speed up a bit, we’re still on time !

cymbals

So, Tuesday, we started recording the missing double-kick parts to reinject them in Ttta & Salami. The trick worked well. Then, followed Nouvo recording. Mehdi helped Bertrand by supporting him with an acoustic guitar.

At this moment, we therefore had 5,5 tracks recorded (see picture)

While finishing the drums, Louis, Diego & Mehdi decided to wrap up Celltool, which lacked some riffs. They went out and rehearsed.

rehearse_out

Thanks to David, we could make a break and enjoy a good BBQ, just awesome :D
Louis also greated us with a nice pan flute concerto ! That was such a success, we decided to replace all the guitars by it. Yes, I’m serious.

The afternoon was dedicated to complete once for all the drums. HJ was the next target, and not an easy one. The support tracks couldn’t even be used since the software they use (Guitar Pro) didn’t managed to handle the rhythm switches, resulting in glitches in the audio file. We therefore recorded it live with Mehdi on the guitars as backtrack for Bertrand. Diego also rehearsed since this song is hell for him !

record_state

The last one was Celltool. This one was a nightmare ; nothing more, nothing less. We felt the pressure getting a bit more on our nerves every minute that passed. The guitarists decided to change some structures and other (not-so) details in it, so Bertrand had to find new parts in live. It’s useless to say that Bertrand ended by looking at Mehdi a bit like an enraged dog would have :D

bertrand_finishedAnyway, this day was succesfully completed, with all the drums done and an exhausted, but happy drummer !