Back from the dead: Shane

Hello everyone. After arriving in Stavanger I became more and more swine flu-ish as the days progressed. I finally reached my illness plateau yesterday spending 24 hours in bed.

Now that I am able to stand and be amongst the living again, I can properly recap my three days of recording Godal.


Who's gonna play bass now?






















This is Dan the bass player.

On Monday morning I got a call from Matias the guitarist letting me know that Dan wouldn't be recording with us because he was quarantined for having the swine flu. Luckily for Dan he now has lot's of extra time to work on his song contribution to Joe Valle's Christmas album (sorry for the inside joke people).



Matias played the bass instead.





We were given three days at dreamlab studios in this converted warehouse complex called Tou Scene. Tou Scene is the most Williamsburg-ish part of Stavanger - full of hipster cafes, venues, and recording studios. I felt at home.


dreamlab only runs Logic which was bad news for me because I don't know that program at all.

Lucky for me Inge "Co-Pilot" Engelsvold, co-owner of dreamlab and keyboardist extraordinaire had my back.



This is Inge's band Dreampilots. He's on the upper right. It's out in the US now. Buy it.


Here are some random pictures of the recording session.


Matias + one of Inge's cool ass guitars.


Åse being stern.


Tom loungin'.


Matias a bit confused as to how headphones work.


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What did you do to the overheads...?

Wednesday was the mixing day. Matias and I had been talking for a number of days about the overall sound they wanted out of the mix. He said that he wasn't happy with some of their past recordings because they were too produced and clean sounding. We decided that we would go for a super dirty sound, but try to avoid 4-track cassette recorder territory.

The sound we got was super dirty and super huge - exactly what we were looking for. However, I am looking forward to mixing it again at school where I know the board, room, monitors and DAW.

Check out the song here


Working with Godal was great. I feel very lucky to have been paired with them. We got along famously, and we shared a lot of the same musical tastes. Can't ask for more.

Come back to Brooklyn soon Godal.