I had to have a week and a half of rest (no playing at all) during the tracking due to an old hand injury that still keeps coming back and bugging me. Now my work is done and I can start bugging other Aqua-folks with “are you done yet?”

So… it’s time to start getting  guitar sounds for the Trusties album. I have been collecting second-hand guitar speakers to have a selection of different sounds available for recording. The first step was to decide which speaker gets mated to which cabinet:

Damn, those Mesa 1×12:s loaded with EVM12L:s still sound great!

Here’s snippets from track 11 (a rocking Maiden-influenced song in 7/4), track 10B (an instrumental) and track 6 (check out that opening drums/bass hook!).

Two snare mics plus a piezo clip on the bottom rim, four octobans, five toms, left double bass drum, right double bass drum, two overheads and two room mics – in total there’s 18 channels of boom, crack, crash and cling goodness!

Next, I’ll move the mics over to my kit and start recording drums for the next Aquaplan album. Meanwhile Ville has already started recording bass for the Trusties album.

Here’s some more pics of the miked drumkit.

“What the f..k is up with these bass drum pedals??”
“Let’s check if the settings are the same for left and right pedal… nope that’s not it.”
“WTF, the right pedal feels very sticky and unresponsive?!?”

Turns out one of the bearings in the right pedal is busted. Hopefully we’ll get a replacement soon.