STUDIO DIARY - DAY 17 (Bass recordings)

Hohoy everybody!

Just finished the bass guitars for the last song! Came back home from vacation in Salla, Lapland few days ago and have been recording during 3 evenings after that.

Salla - In the middle of nowhere.

So now we'll go through the songs with the guys and make the last changes on the tracks if needed. Then we are ready to start moving on guitars! Gonna start by recording Lasse's rhythm guitars at my place probably somewhere in the end of next week.

Till then and stay fuckin ...blues!!!

Pasi / T-ROD

STUDIO DIARY - DAY 12 & 13 (Bass recordings)

Hello!

I've recorded bass guitars now for 7 tracks and 4 more to go...take a look at the YouTube clip from a link below to hear more!

THAUROROD - STUDIO DIARY (Bass recordings)
http://youtu.be/f2lIkUl-fVM

Pasi

Recording bass for the 2nd album...

STUDIO DIARY - DAY 11 (Bass recordings)

Good evening ladies and gentlemen!

Oh what a day it's been... first thing in the morning...no not breakfast...well 1/2 cup of coffey and then rushing to pick up few friends and off to downhill skiing for 2 hours! Btw that was the 2nd time of my life and the 1st for about 20 years so wasn't exactly professional but it was okay and we had lots of fun!

Slalom slalom...

After skiing we went to eat and a quick visit to home and then off to record some more bass. Just came back home from the recordings. Finished that long epic track and after that recorded 1 Emppu's song and 1 more my song till the solo parts. Pretty happy with today's recordings!

Greetings from home.

Gonna continue tomorrow...probably around midday and then continue in the evening again after a little break. Hope to have at least half of the songs recorded tomorrow!

Have a great saturday!

Pasi / T-ROD

STUDIO DIARY - DAY 9 & 10 (Bass recordings)

Hi there!

So we fixed the problem with monitoring Haage few days ago...it wasn't in sound card but somehow the default output settings of Pro Tools 9 were wrong and they had to be changed so it worked.

Yesterday I changed few xlr cables and tuned new Elixir strings on my bass and also made few more changes on the bass sound. Just made the cabinet sound a bit more distorted and took out some bass frequensy while adding treble frequency. Should work really well with the mixed line sound! Then I recorded 1 track and call it a day...

Bass cabinet with 3 mics (Audix A6, Shure 57, Sennheiser E606) on it.

Another day after work by bass recordings. I actually had some problem with monitoring yesterday so I wanted to try fix it and it turned out there is some latency as I need to use asio 4 all driver as my sound card's own driver don't work with Pro Tools. Well I just had to take the monitoring straight from the sound card by turning a knob so that it gives me more input than it gives playback and then have to lower the volumes of bass tracks on Pro Tools. Well not too complicated...I can live with that...and maybe we can bring down the latency as well later.

Monitoring room

Time to start recording our longest track of the album...about 8 minutes long epic shit! Also title song for the album... I record it to some solo parts and then decide to write something on a blog andcontinue tomorrow as I should have more time and energy...maybe 1 cold beer and pretty soon off to bed.

Take care!

Pasi / T-ROD

Bass and amp

STUDIO DIARY - DAY 8 (Bass recordings)

Hello everyone!

So time for an update about bass recordings for the 2nd Thaurorod album.

I have set my bass amp/cab and monitoring room for the upcoming bass recordings...so far I've tested mic sounds with different mics like Audix A6 and for the high frequency bass Shure 57 and Sennheiser E606. Sounds have been really what I wanted to have by using different microfones on bass cabinet. Then also recording pure line sound besides the mic tracks.

We should get at least most of the final drum tracks tomorrow evening. On wednesday we will try to fix a problem at my sound card as the 2nd control room input seems to be broken so we try to re-connect it if that's what's wrong with it.

So I'll add pics and videos later before the actual recordings starts.

Have a tremendous New Year's Eve and much success and happiness for the year 2013!

Cheers,

Pasi

STUDIO DIARY - DAY 7 (Drum recordings)

Hoy,

The very last day and the last drum recordings done! After we have all the drums edited we are ready to record more and that will be around Christmas when we start with the bass recordings!

Take a look at the video we prepared for you: THAUROROD - DRUM RECORDINGS

 Mr. blast beat producer Larsson Nyman.

Till then folks!

Cheers,

T-ROD

STUDIO DIARY - DAY 6 (Drum recordings)

Hi Ray'Os,

Probably the last day at the studio as we have only 1 more song to go...still we have a small problem as somehow the backing track for Joonas's monitoring which he hears while playing and recording drums is somehow stretched and the click and the guitar/keys track starts to go a little bit off the grid in the end of the song...well shouldn't be too big of a problem still. If we can't get it fixed right now here at the studio then we re-record the guitars tomorrow and record the drums after that tomorrow.

 Emppu and Lasse at the monitoring room. Starting to record the last track.

Also planning to have a little "drum recordings completed party" tomorrow! Hope to prepare some video footage from the drumming, from the party and maybe even some more clips of demo recordings with vocals...

Some video recordings from drumming also.

Have a great weekend!

Pasi, Emppu, Lasse & Joonas

STUDIO DIARY - DAY 5 (Drum recordings)

Hello boys and girls!

So here we are again at the rockstar studios working on some bad ass drumshit. 

We did some killer arrangements earlier today for the song called "The land of thousand rays" and we pushed

Jonde really hard with some insane blastbeats and stuff like that. 

Jonde did an amazing job as usually and the result is awesome. 

Now we are working on "Ride the Ray'O" which is 9th song so we only have this one and two more to go.

Tomorrow might be the last day of this lovely drumfiesta, öh!

So take care and stay fuckin' metal fellows!

- Lasse, Haage & Jonde

(Jonde kickin some butt)

STUDIO DIARY - DAY 4 (Drum recordings)

Good evening dudes and dudettes!

At the studio again...recording drums for our 7th track at the moment. Btw I posted an YouTube video from the recordings yesterday and I totally forgot to mention who the heck this Haage on the video was.

Harri "Haage" Koskela is a guy who I and rest of the band besides Andi have known for something like 8 years and who lives here in Hyvinkää as well. Oh and also nowadays happens to play keyboards in a band called Thaurorod...have you heard of that band? One day Haage told that would be great to play with us. We knew it would be so much easier to work with a guy who we know way back and who lives in Hyvinkää and who is also a great composer, keyboardist, sound guy in studio and one of the nicest guys you can ever imagine! We already played 2 shows warming up for Wintersun in Finland with Haage and it was blast! With our previous keyboardist Vili things didn't just work as well as they should have even though he too was an awesome keymurderer! All the best to Vili for the future and thanks for everything.

Haage behind the mixing desk recording Joonas's drumming.

Man behind the rhythm of T-ROD.

Well that's that and now we are recording a killer fuckin album and can't wait to get it over to you!!! Tonight maybe gonna have a few beers later as it's gonna be Finland's independence day tomorrow! Well that means that recordings can start pretty early tomorrow....anyway 'till then!

Kippis! Skål! Prost! Egészsegedre! etc...

Pasi

STUDIO DIARY - Day 3 (Drum recordings)

Hi there!

Prepared an YouTube video for you to see something about the recordings yesterday on 3rd December! Gonna have a day off on 4th but continue again on 5th December. So far drums for 5-6 tracks recorded!

Enjoy the video at: Thaurorod - Studio diary (drum recordings)

Cheers,

Pasi / T-ROD