Monday June 18th

Today we started working. Tim wants us to have to possibility to record live in the studio. After seeing us live he felt there was a lot of energy that would go lost in a lot of the songs if we recorded it one instrument at a time. But in order to do this right we needed to carefully place the microphones in the room. Udo had some great ideas as to how we could do that. He really knows this room and all it's little secrets. What a talented guy. Ton Hotel has a lot of possibilities and we spent a lot of time trying things out. We ended up with a killer sound. Jakob's old pearl drumkit sounded quite amazing. He has borrowed a Supaphonic and a Black Beauty snare from Anders Kidmose (ex Monoton) and with his own Harnus and Hert snare we got a lot of possibilites. Tim is an amazing drumtuner so he really gets the best out of those old drums. Arvid's Mesa Boogie amp was mic'ed with 3 mic's AND a line and sounded killer! My new set-up with the old Fender with the 4 12" speaker and the weird german amp Echolette with the 18" speaker was mic'ed with 3 mic's as well and it sounds fantastic! Rich and crunchy. I feared that it would be hard capturing that sound but Udo and Tim sure know what they're doing. We spent all day making sound and finished the day with a great barbecue in the garden.

Mikkel / Barra Head