{"id":155,"date":"2018-10-03T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T10:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipjetheridge.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:30:01","slug":"6-a-padded-room-some-history-part-4b-a-padded-room-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/6-a-padded-room-some-history-part-4b-a-padded-room-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"6.\tA Padded Room – some history. Part 4b, A Padded Room (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Even though many of the demos were quite carefully recorded we anyway ended up replacing almost everything or even starting songs from scratch, using the demo as a template. All the bass lines were redone, most of the guitars and all the drums of course, as they were programmed. The original demo parts that made the final mix include the wailing guitars on Waiting for a train<\/em> and Niclas Carron\u2019s superb verse fills on Pray<\/em> where he uses the middle mic on his Fender Strat that I know he prefers (and which I never use on mine). A lot of the original keyboard parts were also used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often, we used Herbie\u2019s original demo\narrangements, which mostly worked fine, though not always. That\u2019s Me<\/em> is\na case in question which we recorded completely uncritically and which sounded\nlike it had been mixed by Stefan Glaumann (First Cab producer) in 1984, totally\ndrowned in reverb. We accepted that for months until we were nearing the end of\nthe project and listened through all the songs, being completely honest about\nwhat we were hearing. Bj\u00f6rn\u2019s comment on That\u2019s Me <\/em>was classic: \u201cI\nfast-forward that one\u201d. Consequently, in the week following that meeting I\nworked on the song and revamped it completely, with new a drum and bass rhythm\ncompletely different from the original, plus some new guitars. The singing was\nkept. The week after that we re-recorded Bj\u00f6rn\u2019s drums and lifted the song to\nbecome one which is definitely not fast-forwarded. Herbie\u2019s original\narrangement for Northern Skies<\/em> is intact on the other hand and is a\nhigh-point at the end of the album. If I have one regret, it\u2019s that we didn\u2019t\nput that track earlier in the sequencing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waiting for a train<\/em> also caused some headaches. I didn\u2019t really like the drum rhythm on my\noriginal demo and spent a lot of time trying to give it more bounce. After\nBj\u00f6rn re-did the drums, the bass part didn\u2019t fit and we weren\u2019t satisfied until\nthe sixth version of that. Under Heaven<\/em> was written on the jetty in September\n2017 on an iPad while Niclas Carron was out in a rowboat with his young son\nEddie, trying to catch a fish. That song was close to not making the final cut\nuntil some heavy editing and revamping had been done. After which, well, I\u2019m\nglad it\u2019s there. \n\nPlans for the cover artwork. Herbie had a couple of suggestions, one with a\nbunch of guys in 40\u2019s zoot-suits with angel\u2019s wings. Eh? It was surreal and\nquite fun until he even added a nuclear explosion, which I thought looked like\na cauliflower in one corner of the picture. And a pile of skulls in the other\ncorner. Another Herbie suggestion was a collage of eyes, noses and mouths,\nwhich when reduced in size looked just like a pink pavement pizza. \n\n\n\n \ufffd\u00046\ufffd7\u001fB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though many of the demos were quite carefully recorded we anyway ended up replacing almost everything or even starting songs from scratch, using the demo as a template. All the bass lines were redone, most of the guitars and all the drums of course, as they were programmed. The original demo parts that made … <\/p>\n

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