Kristian & Jonne
The mixing console, now working again
Rasmus, Kristian & Jonne
We have finally started to record our first album with Neighbourhood! Here’s a report from the studio in Gävle, Sweden.
It all started very early yesterday morning back in Stockholm, from where we started our journey to Gävle, the town where we have rented a studio for a couple of days. We only had access to one car, so some of us went with that together with all the instruments and equipment, and the others travelled by train.
After arriving in Gävle we met up with Rasmus who is our sound engineer and headed for the studio. We immediately started to rig everything up and after lunch, a pretty disgusting taco buffet, we were ready for the first take! We decided to begin with the song Fly, but after a couple of takes where the Neighbourhood wibe didn’t really come through, we realized we had to change some of the earphone settings to hopefully get a better feeling in the band.
Unfortunately this resulted in the discovery of a problem with the studio mixing console, and after lots of trial and error Rasmus realized he couldn’t fix this by himself, and a technician had to come down and take a look at it. Not the best of starts of course, but once the technician was done all the small details fell in place, and we could finally start working Neighbourhood style!
Kristian, Aleks & Edvin
After the initial sound troubles, day one resulted in two great songs on tape. Now, after a good nights sleep over at Sebastian’s place, we’re back in the studio and ready to start working again! Stay tuned for more reports from the studio!