Recording guitars: Making a long story short

Few days after recording the drums Antti-Ville and I packed our equipment and headed to RedFive Studios in Vantaa. After fine wooden floor and leather couches Sonic Pump, we found out that RedFive was a nice little garage/bedroom studio with a little bit more punk rock spirit in it. So after a cup of coffee we put up our gear in the garage and did a little soundcheck. Malinen turned some knobs and in no time we had the sound we wanted. The main guitar was my Gibson SG Special, plugged into a Peavey 5150. Later on we also doubled all the guitars with A-V's ENGL Thunder head. Both amps went through the same Orange cab, and the sound was captured with a Shure SM57.

Being a first-timer in studio wasn't easy. We had to simplify many parts of the songs due to lack of skills. And some parts... well, let's just say they didn't fit in the songs at all. Luckily we had our engineer - the King Of The Riffs - A. Malinen, who guided us with the tough parts and produced us to make a better record. Although it took us longer than we had expected, we got all the songs on tape the way we wanted... So now when the guitars are done, it sounds superb!