Week two - the short, but sweet one

Studio diary 2006

The second week was slightly shorter workingwise due to the annual Hultsfredsfestival in Sweden. Anders B went there as early as Tuesday and I went back and forth on Friday. But we managed to record some stuff anyway.

On Monday we continued tracking the guitar. As mentioned above, Anders B had to finish his guitars as fast as possible due to the Hultsfredtrip so we scheduled two sessions with him and one with André in the middle.

So Anders managed to track all his songs plus a solo on Monday and André tracked six tracks leaving only the "easy" ones for Tuesday.



Anders B tired after tracking a lot of songs.



Anders B's axe. Look - no tuning pegs...

Tuesday began with André tracking all his remaining tracks. Then we did a photosession with Robert Johansson, known for a lot of Nasum photos. We started with some shots on a location just a few meters from the Coldworker Studios. Then we went out on the countryside and tried a little walking set up along with some more normal shots. After that we concluded the photosession with some shots in an alley and under the shadow of a large factory pipe (or whatever).

We returned to the "studio" (when I write Coldworker Studios, it's really our rehearsal room) and Anders B left for Hultsfred and André tried to record some solos, but never really got anything down that satisfied him. The day ended and so did the guitar recording for this week.



André tracking guitar.



Joel is anxious to join the fun.



Anders B gets a phone call, as always.



André still tracking guitar.



Joel sleeping, Kronblom style.

On Wednesday we re-started recording the bass. As mentioned in the first diary, we recorded a few songs in the wrong tuning so we had to start all over with the bass. This time it was much better and Oskar got a few songs down on this first session.

There were a first vocal session scheduled as well but as I was feeling quite ill, being struck buy an untimely cold, I called it off, and had a break from the studiosessions for three days.

On Sunday, this short recording week ended with another bass session and Joel's first session in the studio. He's been waiting for a long time to join the fun, and while at it, he pulled off three songs before the day and week ended.



Oskar checking out an album recorded exactly two years ago.


Joel enters recording mode.


Oskar is Bob Rock, Joel James Hetfield.

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  • Posted: Jun 19 2006, 01:14:29

Week five and a half – the final post

Studio diary 2006 This is the final post in the studio diary, which means that the album is completely done now! Hurray for Coldworker! As mentioned in the last diary post, the mixing process continued a few more days into week five as Dan Swanö did his final adjustments and all that. He made a total of 11 mixes before we all agreed that we had reached our goal. Might sound a lot but I don’t really think it is. Some of the mixes were just minor changes. As for major changes there were perhaps four mixes. Wh...

Posted: July 10 2006, 23:53:14 Read the whole entry

Week four - Dan Swanö takes command

Studio diary 2006 The report this week isn't that exciting since there hasn't been much going on for Coldworker. On the other side of town, though, there has been very much going on, since Dan Swanö has spent most of the week mixing like a maniac. I finished the last pieces of editing on Monday night and went to Swanö's new home studio (Unisound version 3 or 4) with the harddrive. Swanö plugged it in and we got a sound, he then copied everything to his system and was so excited that he spent the night mixin...

Posted: July 2 2006, 17:21:01 Read the whole entry

Week three - the final one

Studio diary 2006 The third week of the recording of "The Contaminated Void" obviously started where week two ended - with vocals. Joel came in on Monday morning doing his second session. He managed to record four songs before we had to break to have another photosession with Robert. The first one didn't result in that many useable photos and were all outdoors. We needed some more, some darker and in an indoor environment. Said and done, we entered the garage next to Coldworker Studios and shot a lot of photos be...

Posted: June 25 2006, 23:43:11 Read the whole entry

Week two - the short, but sweet one

Studio diary 2006 The second week was slightly shorter workingwise due to the annual Hultsfredsfestival in Sweden. Anders B went there as early as Tuesday and I went back and forth on Friday. But we managed to record some stuff anyway. On Monday we continued tracking the guitar. As mentioned above, Anders B had to finish his guitars as fast as possible due to the Hultsfredtrip so we scheduled two sessions with him and one with André in the middle. So Anders managed to track all his songs plus a solo on Mo...

Posted: June 19 2006, 01:14:29 Read the whole entry

Week one - from six-six-six to six-six-strings

Studio diary 2006 The recording of our first album "The Contaminated Void" begun on the unholy day of June 6, 2006 (06/06/06), which also happened to be the Swedish National Day. A good day to start some Swedish death metal in other words. In all honest the recording sort of started the day before when Dan Swanö and I put up the mikes on the drumkit. This was not entirely easy as the soundcard in my recording equipment failed to deliever 16 recording possibilities at once. At the end of the miking session we ...

Posted: June 11 2006, 23:31:23 Read the whole entry
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