Studio Diary for The Origins Of Paganblood
by Lord
The Guardian, extremely evi doggie, of D - Studio
Day 1 ( 28.9.2004 )
The keyboards have already been made during the creation of the songs, so this day was basically
spent by setting up the project files for the songs and building up the equipment.
Recorder itself is pc based Nuendo audio recorder system.
Alltogether, 15 songs are to be done. The feeling in the studio is very laid back and everybody
are exited about the forthcomign work
Day 2 ( 30.9.2004 )
The drums have been set up. The engineers Jarno & his band mate,
had an extremely bad hangover because of the party they had the night before.
Divercia had an succesful gig at On The Rock, Helsinki.
A middle aged dude insisted to buy them a whole night.
So free booze, who wouldn´t have a hangover, uh?
Agathon laid drums for four tracks
1. Northlander
2. The Valley ( clamor of unending dying )
3. Circle Of Pain & Glory
4. The Marionette ( flesh part dropped from the name )
The session took only three hours, so Agathon is really on a killing spree!!
My job was to just look through the huge pile of metal & porn mags, hehe.
...to be continued
Days 3 & 4 (1.10 & 2.10 )
All drums are now done . Jarno started the editing and we should start making guitars on nest tuesday or on wednesday.
It all depends on the editing. It seems, that there are not so much to do, as Agathon did such great job on
the drums in the first place. Well done, bro!! Now the guitar mayhem begins.
Days 4 - 6
Editing
Day 7
Now we started to create guitar sound for the first two guitars. We are planning to do four rhythm guitars
and 3 to 4 lead guitars depending on the track. I shall do most of the guitars, sdo there shall
be some helluva weeks a head. Fuin but hard work.We did rhythm guitars for
two songs in three hours after three hour session mixing the sounds.
I think it is pretty well done, isn´t it?? To day the result shall be checked and removed or saved.
Guitars shall continue today
Equipment
Jackson Custom Shop Model - 1
Jackson Kelly
SansAmp
different amps
Days 8 - 10
I did all rhyhthm guitars except Azhemin did guitars for Northlander.
He used the same guitar so the sound wouldn´t change.
Now two rhythm guitars have been made for all of the songs.
Also most of the additional guitars have been made.
Toni shall come to do some leads and the Roope shall do his.
And the "second round" for the guitars already began on sunday ( 10th day )
10 more tracks, 20 more guitars to go ;)...
Set uop for first two guitars
Set up for 3rd & 4th guitars
Azhemin doing the guitars
Lord the guitar hero ;)
Lord The Producer
Days 11 - 18 ( written 19.11.2004 )
Rest of the guitars have been made.Except for the leads. Azhemin started to sing songs
and did marvellous job for six songs in ONE day!!!
And we had a huge drinking session day before, heh. Some cool crispy sounding vox .
Lilith did on next day vocals for three songs. BUT she did also lots of
cool , strange and powerful harmonies and melody lines.
Some songs shall have three or four harmonies. Mostly she did
used six tracks for one vocal. AND NO AUTO TUNING!!!
The mayhem continues with bass on wednesday..
Days 19 - 20 ( Written 22.10.2004 )
Jani came and slammed the bass down. Now there are bass on seven tracks.
The bass has been recorded with two input system; one is straight in-line bass with
distortion on it and one is with microphone played LOUD!!
The combination is very hard and warm yet powerful, all at the same time.
Great job, D - Crew!! The bass was recorded by Jarno2 & Sami,
sound created by Jarno The Great #1.
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People are having too much fun at the studio... I should be more harsh!!!
wlapwlapwlapdiudiudiudiubulubulubulu....tilulilu...
After succesful bass job it feels FINE :)
Days 21 - 24 ( written 27.10. 2004 )
Ms ( tp be MRS!!!) Lilith did most vocals she shalll do.
Only few lines and harmonies were left to do on next session.
Songs are pretty much in shape and the mixing shall began.
Also our "guest - angel" Netta did her share. She did some orgasmic job, indeed..
Making our studio engineer smile and happy ;)
This was probablky the closest he got to a woman in a while, haha.
( no offense ) So chicks should contact Jarno asap!!!
MS L. got her new boots...