This Machine Still Kills Fascists

studio diaries: manhattan...

I suppose I'll talk about the Manhattan Project...

Ok, that's a bit on the dramatic side, but it sounds so cool!

Manhattan was the first song we attempted, and it was difficult to record. The tempo fluctuates a bit (intentionally), so the click track was a disaster.

I hate that thing anyway. It can really take the emotion out of a song if you aren't careful. I digress once again...

There is a ton of space in this piece, and that made it hard for us to settle down and get a take. If we got the rhythm correct, we had no emotion. If we had all the feeling in the world, we were all over the place on the technical front.

"Sloppy Sloppy! Run it again!" Yes I'm aware that quote from Rudy was gratuitous, but we needed inspiration and I needed something to link in this post.

We had to use two separate sessions to track this song, which was the first and last time we resorted to that tactic. It took a lot of work, but I think we got the take.

Or did we?!?!

Yes, yes we did.