Into the Primordial Studio Diary Part 3

Or not tomorrow. Due to a series of miscommunications, I ended up going to the RVG:TZM/Cryptopsy show rather than continue recording. Our Friday night was remarkably similar: no recording. Finally, today I made it back into the studio to begin anew. I spent the better part of the evening cleaning, and then around 8:30 we began another series of mic rearrangements. By the time we were finished testing, it was determined that I needed a hole in the front of my bass drum. So I, having never ported a drum before, began to slice through the head. I completed about half of the circle before the head broke. We temporarily repaired the broken head with duct tape but it wasn’t an acceptable sound. It was about that time that Tim arrived from the north. Nick had discovered that the MIDI track to which I was playing had gone awry; all the tempos were off. He and Tim spent about 20 minutes repairing MIDI tracks before I began to play. We only managed get two takes of the track completed, and neither of them had an acceptable sound. It was at this point that we decided to call it a night and to resume in the morning with a new head, and a new mic setup…