“J here. After a nice ride home on the iron horse I now have a glass of red to celebrate this evenings session. I first did the cover song, then went on to the 2nd song of the new demo and by then my voice was warmed up so to say and sounded like I normally do so I went on to record the 1st song for the demo and then I did the cover song once again as I thought the voice was sounding better than at the first take. Then I started with the 4th song of the day and I guess it sounded ok but my head was pounding like a head that is pounding really bad so I decided to try out tomorrow instead. Wise decision by someone who has been there a million times before, haha.. I still nailed three songs within an hour so I am happy with that result.
So why do I do that you might ask? Because I hate being in the studio?
Absolutely not! I just love the idea of going to the studio, well rehearsed from sitting in the car and repeating the song to a CD, and then nail a first take. A first take is the most honest and rawest piece of material you can work with..
I could probably re-do a few lines here and there to make them sound like the rest of the lines but I have done that for years and years so now I just say fuck it! Give me the microphone, set the levels and a decent sound in the headphones and go. I dont even have all guitar tracks, drum tracks, bass on separate files, K sent me a rough mix of the song and that is what I use, hahah.. Sometimes it is really hard to get the tempo cause I cant hear shit what they play but fuck it. If I cant do it in headphones then how the fuck can I do it live I usually think.. better get used to it, right?
Anyway, a short update and insight of how I work.
Thanx to Tobbe Sillman for recording me this time!!
Cheers,
J.”