Digimortal Studio Diary
Got into the studio today about 12:00 to set up all the equipment.
Started getting drum sounds and a guitar tone and bass tone for tracking with the drums, we are taking a little different approach this time, Raymond is going to track the drums while Dino and Christian, play and Burt sings. The way we usually do it is Raymond plays the tracks alone with a click track.
Started to record 1 song:
Hurt Conveyor
Raymond recorded:
Lynchpin
Invisible Wounds
Here is a list of each song and its tempo:
Acres Of Skin : 122bpm
Note: these are all working titles and may be subject to change as recording progresses.
Bass tracks for Hurt Conveyor done
Beginning to get vocal sounds for Burton to start singing tomorrow
The record is being produced by Rhys Fulber, and engineered by Mike Plotnikov
Started vocals for Damaged
Guitar and bass for Damaged (except chorus)
Guitar for Acres Of Skin almost done
Bass for Acres Of Skin started
Guitar for Acres Of Skin completed
Bass for Acres Of Skin completed
Vocals for Damaged redone
Guitars for Lynchpin done
Started vocals for Lynchpin
Guitars for Lynchpin done
Bass for Digimortal done
Vocals for Digimortal started
Guitars for Byte Block completed
Bass for Byte Block started
Redoing some vocals for Digimortal
Guitars for Strain Vs Resistance done
Bass for Strain Vs Resistance
Guitars for No One
Bass for Never End done
Guitars for Invisible Wounds started
Bass for Invisible Wounds done
Guitar for No One done
Vocals for Byte Block completed
Bass for No One done
Guitars for What Will Become done
Bass for What Will become done
Redid some more guitars for Lynchpin
Started doing a rough mix of Lynchpin
Getting audio files ready for keyboard programming
Redid more vocals for No One
Started programming keyboards to Damaged
Did some keyboards for Damaged
Did some keyboards for Hurt Conveyor
Redid some vocals for Acres Of Skin
Keyboards for Hurt Conveyor
Redid vocals for Digimortal
Christian did backing vocals for No One
Christian did backing vocals for Acres Of Skin
Keyboards for Hurt Conveyor
Christian did backing vocals for Digimortal and Invisible Wounds
Rhys did some keyboard programming for Acres Of Skin
And we had a big party here at the studio as well.
Dino redid some guitar for Hurt Conveyor
Rhys did programming for Lynchpin
Dino redid some guitars for Damaged
Christian did backing vocals for Strain vs Resistance
Christian did backing vocals for Lynchpin
Rhys did keyboards for Never End
Rhys did keyboards for Byte Block
Did the mixing for Damaged
Rhys did some keyboard touch ups on Damaged
Rhys did keyboards for Lynchpin
Rhys did some touch ups on the keyboards for What Will Become
Rhys did some more keyboard sections for What Will Become, and Christian did keyboard sections and some samples as well.
Finished mixing for What Will Become
Rhys started doing keyboards for No One
Mixing for Hurt Conveyor started
Rhys did more keyboard for No One
Rhys finished keyboards to Never End
Rhys is starting keyboards for Invisible Wounds
Mixing for Hurt Conveyor finished
Mixing for Never End started
Continuing keyboards for Invisible Wounds
Still doing keyboards for Invisible Wounds
Mixing for Acres Of Skin started
Programming for Digimortal done
Rhys did programming for Acres Of Skin
Mixing for Acres Of Skin done
Rhys did keyboards for Digimortal
Rhys did keyboards for Loop Song
Rhys finished keyboards for Invisible Wounds
Mixing for Digimortal done
Started mix for Lynchpin
Began mix recall for Damaged
Recalled mixing for No One started
Recalled mixing for Invisible Wounds done
note: not all songs will be recalled
Recalled mixing for Lynchpin done
That is all the album is finished.
If you noticed you will see that not all the songs needed to be recalled and not all the tracks were mixed. The album will have 10 tracks. Here they are in no particular order
Damaged
These are the extra tracks, the names will change for some of these as well.
Train Wreck
Today Burton did vocals for the slide song, it is still called the slide song but the name will change
Burton did vocals for Forgiveness
Christian did backing vocals for Forgiveness and Maggot
We are pretty much done for the year, we will do a few more recalls and mixing for a few tracks in the beginning of the year
So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Till 2001...
[09|29|00]
(Some song titles have changed and will continue to change but we will keep you updated on title changes as well as studio progress)
[09|30|00]
Today we just came in and started tracking.
Damaged
Strain vs Resistance
What Will Become
No-one
Digi Mortal
Never End
Byte Block
Acres Of Skin
Invisible Wounds (re-tracking this tomorrow)
[10|01|00]
Raymond finished off the drum tracks:
Loop Song
Train Wreck
Never End
Slide Song
Byte Block : 78bpm
Damaged : 133pm
Digimortal : 103bpm
Hurt Conveyor : 165bpm
Invisible Wounds : 76bpm
Loop Song : 99bpm
Lynchpin : 112bpm
Never End : 56bpm
No One : 108bpm
Slide Song : 104bpm
Strain vs Resistance : 83bpm
Train Wreck : 114bpm
What Will Become : 112bpm (middle part)
What Will Become : 115bpm (verses & pre-choruses)
What Will Become : 116bpm (chorus)
[10|03|00] Guitar tracks for Hurt Conveyor done
[10|02|00]
Started getting a guitar tone, and started getting a bass tone.
[10|05|00] Guitar and bass for Damaged finished
[10|04|00] Vocals for Hurt Conveyor
[10|06|00] Vocals for Damaged done
[10|07|00] Day Off
[10|08|00] Vocals for Acres Of Skin completed
[10|09|00] Vocals for Acres Of Skin redone
[10|10|00] Bass for Lynchpin done
[10|11|00] Vocals for Lynchpin done
[10|12|00] Guitars for Byte Block started
[10|13|00] Vocals for Digimortal completed
[10|14|00] Redoing some vocals for Lynchpin
[10|15|00] Redoing some vocals for Acres Of Skin
[10|16|00] Day Off
[10|17|00] Continuing vocals for Byte Block
[10|18|00] Vocals for Never End done
[10|19|00] Vocals for Byte Block continued
[10|20|00] Guitar for Invisible Wounds done
[10|21|00] Guitars for Loop Song done
[10|22|00] Redoing more vocals for Byte Block
[10|23|00] Day Off
[10|24|00] Redid some more vocals for Lynchpin
[10|26|00] Bass for Train Wreck done
[10|27|00] Redid vocals for Lynchpin
[10|28|00] Keyboards for Damaged
[10|29|00] Redid vocals for Invisible Wounds
[10|30|00] DAY OFF
[10|31|00] Burton did vocals for Strain vs Resistance
[11|01|00] Burton redid some vocals for Byte Block and Invisible Wounds
[11|02|00] Burton redid more vocals for Invisible Wounds
[11|03|00] Burton did vocals for Digimortal
[11|04|00] Rhys did keyboards for Lynchpin
[11|05|00] DAY OFF
[11|06|00] Rhys did keyboards for Digimortal
[11|07|00] More keyboards for Never End
[11|08|00] Keyboards for What Will Become
[11|09|00] Rhys did keyboards for Hurt Conveyor
[11|11|00] Went into the new studio. We are still in Los Angeles
[11|10|00] Rhys did keyboards for Damaged
[11|12|00] We did the mixing for What Will Become
[11|13|00] Continued mixing for What Will Become
[11|14|00] Rhys finished keyboards for What Will Become
[11|15|00] Rhys finished keyboards for No One
[11|16|00] Rhys finished keyboards to No One
[11|17|00] Mixing for Never End done
[11|18|00] Mixing for No One started
[11|19|00] Mixing for No One finished
[11|20|00] Rhys did programming for Invisible Wounds
[11|21|00] Started mixing for Invisible Wounds
[11|22|00] Continued mixing for Invisible Wounds
[11|23|00] DAY OFF
[11|24|00] Mixing for Invisible Wounds finished
[11|25|00] Rhys did keyboards for Digimortal
[11|26|00] A few touch-ups done to the mixing on Digimortal
[11|27|00] Continued mix for Lynchpin
[11|28|00]
[11|29|00] Started mixing Byte Block
[11|30|00] Continued mixing Byte Block
[12|01|00] Today we are starting recalls to make sure all the tracks are just right, we are starting on What Will Become
[12|02|00] Finished mix recall for What Will Become
Dec 03, 2000 Recalled mixing for Hurt Conveyor started
Dec 04, 2000 Recall mixing for Hurt Conveyor finished
Dec 05, 2000 Recalled mixing for No One finished
Dec 06, 2000 Recalled mixing for Digimortal done
What Will Become
Digimortal
No One
Byte Block
Never End
Invisible Wounds
Lynch Pin
Hurt Conveyor
Acres Of Skin
Slide Song
Loop Song
Strain Vs Resistance
Dec 13, 2000 OK we are starting to do some of the B-side tracks and Burton will be doing some vocals for a couple of days to try and finish up the rest if the songs that we tracked.
Dec 14, 2000
Title changes:
Train Wreck is now called Forgiveness
Slide Song is now called Maggot
(these titles may change again though)