And So He Wrote, And So He Wrote...

Soooo...Drums are DONE! I was quite busy with editing and mixing the drums so that's the reason why there was no Blog update. I will provide information with a recap of what happened while there was no update:

Saturday, 22nd of December 2012:

Jules picked me up at around 10:30 a.m. and we took my pc with us, so we could record the second song (short reminder: due to the exhausting recording day 1 we decided to record the second one on a seperate day). While he was warming up, I set up the pc and checked if everything was working like the day before.








The beginning of the second song went well and we came closer to the end and because of the faster nature of this song Jules burned his energy also quite fast, so we took a break after 3/4th of the drums were recorded. Right after eating some delicious asian fast food Julian was trying his best to fill the last quarter of the song with his drum play...well he tried...his foot pedal broke for some reason, and we couldn't record double bass parts for the song anymore. We tried stuff around and rearranged some drumplay I had in my mind for this song and the solution was really satisfying! Work done, Drums recorded; now let's start packing our stuff up!

Arch Enemy!

"So we meet again...my arch nemesis! You tried to stop me for the first time Sir Cablelot and this time I won't let you get this far!"- were the thoughts I was thinking while trying to get the cables back together how they were when we got them...

Stupid cables!!!

and I really...I REALLY STRUGGLED with those things...I hate them..I despise their wiggly nature for being so stubborn!!
It took me way longer to round up the cables than Julian took for disassambling the mics from their tripods and putting those back together...and he even helped me finishing the cables...what a sad sad day.

BUT VICTORY IS MINE!

That's how it's supposed to be!

So it didn't took us as long as the first day, but that's because the second song is only half as long as the first one. After we packed up everything,  Jules drove me home and I immediately listened to the recordings and was quite satisfied with it and started editing them...with started I mean reading every god damn good page on the Internet about multitrack drum editing techniques and stuff like that, after 2 hours reading and studying I finally started editing and it lasted for as good as 3 hours...for nothing! Because of one stupid brainfart from yours truly I had to reset everything at around 11:51 p.m.! That's it...I'm out!

Sunday, 23rd of December 2012:

I didn't sleep well...I slept for merely 6 hours and began editing at like 8:30 a.m. and I did nothing else for the whole day...after over 13 hours I was done editing the drums and two and a half hours later I was done with the first mixing, too! Yay, let's go straight back to bed were I came from!

 

Monday, 24th of December 2012:

Nothing much happened for High Rise Fall. It was the day for some quality family time, and damn...it did good to take a break!

Tuesday, 25th of December 2012:

There I was on Christmas day! Totally motivated to edit and mix the drums for the first song we recorded, and it went well! It took me not as long as for the first time doing these things, I developed kinda my own technique and pace for doing the editing stuff, but man...it's a really boring and dumb work...I got trolled by my brain for doing something so dumb so it had to play this nice little tune for the whole day while editing drums:

and after about 13 hours or so of this catchy tune everything was done!

The last bit to export for that song!

Today, Wednesday the 26th of December 2012:

Today I took the first step to record the guitars! We're going to use the reamping method for them and the first step was: organizing the band and asking them when everyone can come over to my place to record their parts! After that was done, I began recording my own parts and got through it in about 3-4 Hours I guess with a long lunchbreak and dinner break in between! :) So my job is done until we're going to record the amped versions of the guitars...well not quite:
tomorrow Denno will come over to drop the bass and on Friday Max will get over here to record his dry guitar parts and hopefully on Saturday we're going to amp those dry signals! And if everything guitar related is done on Saturday we're going to do the vocals on Sunday!





Stay tuned, I will keep you up to date!


Yours truly,

the brainfarting and cablehating Martin!

Yours Truly.... :/

Recording Drums During The Apocalypse!?

Julian smashing his beloved drums!

Hello? Someone alive out there? I guess so...planet Earth still rotating over on my side.

Setting up the Mics 

Well, we finally started recording!!! As you can see we started with recording the drums. But before that we had to drive through some strange traffic, turn around because some roads were blocked by the police in the city were our rehearsal place slumbers. After loading out all of our stuff we began setting up the drums, recording interface and microfones...ok you can erase drums, they have already been set up :P

All plugged in!

All set up!

It took me personally quite a while to get along with those d*** cables, swinging around, deplacing well thought out and well placed microfones, destroying the world....or not!...yet. Well somehow I could win over my retardedness and finally plug every mic into it's foreseen channel...so yeah I somewhat helped today! :D







Well take a look at that! All done and ready to record! While Jules was warming up, I was ordered to get us some coooool water and I got my favorite kind! You have to rrrrroll the 'R' like Till Lindemann does, or else it won't help refreshing you! And I got some snacks as well. ;)

Favorite kind of water!

So...soundcheck done already, can we finally start recording? Yes!! DO IT! 1-2-3-4....nothing? Yes you heard right! The song we recorded today starts quietly and slow, not directly into your face stuff...actually 70-80% on the upcoming album start like that...we're getting old...or just tired of 'in your face'-stuff? I don't know...but it tastes sooo good!

Ohhhh...those tunes!

Hours and countless times of explaining what is going to happen next and changing my mind we got our first song! But soon we found out that something was not quite right with it, and we deleted all of it and started all over again but it was definitely worth it! Now it sounds really good and serves the song well!! At least for now...let's see what a new day and fresh ears will bring.



We took a break after finishing the 1st song and met up with our pals from Darkest Horizon, Olli and Daniel (our former bass player) and shared our healthy and tasty food. After that we got back to our rehearsal room and started to record the second song, but had to realize after another hour that it would be senseless to continue while being exhausted. So we ended it right there for today and took our few things with us and drove home, were I started to mix the recorded song and put that video together for you guys! I never thought it would take my PC this long for such a short video but well...whatever. There it is! Have fun watching and hopefully you enjoy it and can somehow see where we are going with our new music. Currently it's 1:20 am and I'm still thinking about whether we should continue recording the second song we started today or we start another one...it's a tricky decision, but at least we're going to try it later today.

I hope you could get a small insight on how we work and how we sound :P

I'm going to sleep now, tomorrow Jules will pick me up again, hopefully not too soon ;)

Greetz

Martin

BTW: The song in the beginning of our video is called "Mordromantik" and is on our debut album "Morbide Unterhaltungsmusik". You can listen to it here:





and you can listen to it and even download it here:

Preparing for the APOCALYPSE!

Interface

So it's thursday the 20th of December of 2012 and Jules came over to my house to prepare a bit for tomorrow, bringing over the interface and adjusting the Cubase Projects of the Songs we're going to record.

Tracks for the drums in Cubase

After we tested the interface so that it works for the big day and the signal from the mics arrives on the right tracks, we just fooled around on Youtube watching funny guys like him:



Now I'm just waiting for Jules to pick me up tomorrow and prepare for the end of the world. I hope he comes not too late! ;)

Sincerly,

Martin


p.s.:

Some sneek peak of our worksheet for the whole album:

Which of these do you think are we going to record for the demotests? ;)

IT LIVES!!!!

This is our first blog post! And just a test ;)