Over the weekend we completed 98% of the recording for the new EP at Revolution Studios. We’ve tracked pretty much everything except a few backing vocal tracks, which we’re going to record at home (thanks to Jai who’s lending us his NT1000 - thanks dude!)

Despite a setback of a few hours on Saturday morning (thanks to a system hard-drive crash) we were able to do everything we wanted to. Guitars, bass, drums live with extra guitar, vocals, piano overdubbed. There’s a few minor edits needed (to get electronic parts sounding more natural), but a vast majority is down.

Working with Genevieve has been awesome so far. She got some huge drum sounds (thanks in part to a mic stuffed in the underbelly of an upright piano!) and really found a much more live sound, which we really wanted.

The guitar sounds are great too - props to Baz for lending us his Rickenbacker, Tele and Twin (which made a huge difference to the recorded guitar sounds). We’ve even got a touch of Genevieve’s Les Paul in there, which just fit the part beautifully. (The Les Paul weighed a tonne compared to the Fenders…)

Genevieve also played with a really aggressive vocal compression on one track that not only sounds great, but really changed the way I sang the part - and all for the better.

All in all we’re really stoked with how it’s going so far - can’t wait to hear the mixes!

We’re booked in over next weekend to do the mix, though we’re trying to squeeze in an extra day to make the most of Genevieve’s expertise (budget is getting tight though, so we’ll see).

P.S. Toby’s already posted some pics from the weekend to Flickr.

P.P.S. Somewhere in amongst Thomas Hawk’s Flickr stream is the cover artwork (just confirmed today). More to come on that front soon…

I wanted to write just a little bit about the process we’re going through recording. There’s more “over the jump” if you’re interested in the nitty-gritty details of the process.

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A friend of mine (really - I wasn’t ego-surfing - thanks Kim) sent me this Google search for “fuzu”. Seems we’re competing with a product that promises increase[d] natural testosterone production and increased anabolicity.

LOL!