Shearwater “Rook” recording, day 4
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02:03:57 pm on November 4, 2007 | # |
Not the most productive day in the studio, which had me a little stressed at the end of the night. To start the day, we listened to various edits for “On The Death Of The Waters”, deciding exactly where to splice the two takes. Again, we tested all of these edits on the 1/2″ machine first before I actually cut the multi-track master.
Once the edit was done, we tried a take of “Century Eyes”, but abandoned it thinking that the drums need a radically different treatment to be effective.
We moved on to piano, where Jonathan laid down a solo take of “The Hunter’s Star” to a click track. For this recording, we opened the lid, raised the mics a little, and added an ambient (Earthworks TC40k) mic 6 feet from the end of the piano. After the piano was done, Thor played through the song four or five times before nailing a performance.
The rest of the evening was spent trying “Leviathan” at a variety of tempos, but none of the takes felt right. The band gathered in the live room and played through different arrangement ideas, while I called it a night and headed to Rubber Gloves to see Celebration, who were incredible.
