Digimortal Studio Diary

 

 
[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)

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

[09|30|00]
Today we just came in and started tracking.

Raymond recorded:

Lynchpin
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:

Invisible Wounds
Loop Song
Train Wreck
Never End
Slide Song

Here is a list of each song and its tempo:

Acres Of Skin : 122bpm
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)

Note: these are all working titles and may be subject to change as recording progresses.

[10|03|00]
Guitar tracks for Hurt Conveyor done

Bass tracks for Hurt Conveyor done

Beginning to get vocal sounds for Burton to start singing tomorrow

[10|02|00]
Started getting a guitar tone, and started getting a bass tone.

The record is being produced by Rhys Fulber, and engineered by Mike Plotnikov

[10|05|00]
Guitar and bass for Damaged finished

Started vocals for Damaged

[10|04|00]
Vocals for Hurt Conveyor

Guitar and bass for Damaged (except chorus)

[10|06|00]
Vocals for Damaged done

Guitar for Acres Of Skin almost done

Bass for Acres Of Skin started

[10|07|00]
Day Off

[10|08|00]
Vocals for Acres Of Skin completed

Guitar for Acres Of Skin completed

Bass for Acres Of Skin completed

[10|09|00]
Vocals for Acres Of Skin redone

Vocals for Damaged redone

Guitars for Lynchpin done

[10|10|00]
Bass for Lynchpin done

Started vocals for Lynchpin

[10|11|00]
Vocals for Lynchpin done

Guitars for Lynchpin done

[10|12|00]
Guitars for Byte Block started

Bass for Digimortal done

Vocals for Digimortal started

[10|13|00]
Vocals for Digimortal completed

Guitars for Byte Block completed

Bass for Byte Block started

[10|14|00]
Redoing some vocals for Lynchpin

Redoing some vocals for Digimortal

Guitars for Strain Vs Resistance done

[10|15|00]
Redoing some vocals for Acres Of Skin

Bass for Strain Vs Resistance

Guitars for No One

[10|16|00]
Day Off

[10|17|00]
Continuing vocals for Byte Block

Bass for Never End done

[10|18|00]
Vocals for Never End done

Guitars for Invisible Wounds started

[10|19|00]
Vocals for Byte Block continued

Bass for Invisible Wounds done

[10|20|00]
Guitar for Invisible Wounds done

Guitar for No One done

Vocals for Byte Block completed

[10|21|00]
Guitars for Loop Song done

Bass for No One done

[10|22|00]
Redoing more vocals for Byte Block

Guitars for What Will Become done

Bass for What Will become done

[10|23|00]
Day Off

[10|24|00]
Redid some more vocals for Lynchpin

Redid some more guitars for Lynchpin

Started doing a rough mix of Lynchpin

Getting audio files ready for keyboard programming

[10|26|00]
Bass for Train Wreck done

Redid more vocals for No One

Started programming keyboards to Damaged

[10|27|00]
Redid vocals for Lynchpin

Did some keyboards for Damaged

Did some keyboards for Hurt Conveyor

Redid some vocals for Acres Of Skin

[10|28|00]
Keyboards for Damaged

Keyboards for Hurt Conveyor

Redid vocals for Digimortal

Christian did backing vocals for No One

Christian did backing vocals for Acres Of Skin

[10|29|00]
Redid vocals for Invisible Wounds

Keyboards for Hurt Conveyor

Christian did backing vocals for Digimortal and Invisible Wounds

[10|30|00]
DAY OFF

[10|31|00]
Burton did vocals for Strain vs Resistance

Rhys did some keyboard programming for Acres Of Skin

And we had a big party here at the studio as well.

[11|01|00]
Burton redid some vocals for Byte Block and Invisible Wounds

Dino redid some guitar for Hurt Conveyor

[11|02|00]
Burton redid more vocals for Invisible Wounds

Rhys did programming for Lynchpin

Dino redid some guitars for Damaged

[11|03|00]
Burton did vocals for Digimortal

Christian did backing vocals for Strain vs Resistance

[11|04|00]
Rhys did keyboards for Lynchpin

Christian did backing vocals for Lynchpin

[11|05|00]
DAY OFF

[11|06|00]
Rhys did keyboards for Digimortal

Rhys did keyboards for Never End

[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

Rhys did keyboards for Byte Block

[11|11|00]
Went into the new studio. We are still in Los Angeles

Did the mixing for Damaged

Rhys did some keyboard touch ups on Damaged

[11|10|00]
Rhys did keyboards for Damaged

Rhys did keyboards for Lynchpin

[11|12|00]
We did the mixing for What Will Become

Rhys did some touch ups on the keyboards for What Will Become

[11|13|00]
Continued mixing for What Will Become

Rhys did some more keyboard sections for What Will Become, and Christian did keyboard sections and some samples as well.

[11|14|00]
Rhys finished keyboards for What Will Become

Finished mixing for What Will Become

Rhys started doing keyboards for No One

[11|15|00]
Rhys finished keyboards for No One

Mixing for Hurt Conveyor started

Rhys did more keyboard for No One

[11|16|00]
Rhys finished keyboards to 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

[11|17|00]
Mixing for Never End done

Continuing keyboards for Invisible Wounds

[11|18|00]
Mixing for No One started

Still doing keyboards for Invisible Wounds

[11|19|00]
Mixing for No One finished

Mixing for Acres Of Skin started

Programming for Digimortal done

[11|20|00]
Rhys did programming for Invisible Wounds

Rhys did programming for Acres Of Skin

Mixing for Acres Of Skin done

[11|21|00]
Started mixing for Invisible Wounds

Rhys did keyboards for Digimortal

[11|22|00]
Continued mixing for Invisible Wounds

Rhys did keyboards for Loop Song

[11|23|00]
DAY OFF

[11|24|00]
Mixing for Invisible Wounds finished

Rhys finished keyboards for Invisible Wounds

[11|25|00]
Rhys did keyboards for Digimortal

Mixing for Digimortal done

[11|26|00]
A few touch-ups done to the mixing on Digimortal

Started mix for Lynchpin

[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

Began mix recall for Damaged

Dec 03, 2000
Recalled mixing for Hurt Conveyor started

Dec 04, 2000
Recall mixing for Hurt Conveyor finished

Recalled mixing for No One started

Dec 05, 2000
Recalled mixing for No One finished

Recalled mixing for Invisible Wounds done

note: not all songs will be recalled

Dec 06, 2000
Recalled mixing for Digimortal done

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
What Will Become
Digimortal
No One
Byte Block
Never End
Invisible Wounds
Lynch Pin
Hurt Conveyor
Acres Of Skin

These are the extra tracks, the names will change for some of these as well.

Train Wreck
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.

Today Burton did vocals for the slide song, it is still called the slide song but the name will change

Dec 14, 2000
Title changes:
Train Wreck is now called Forgiveness
Slide Song is now called Maggot
(these titles may change again though)

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...