Brian Bergeron

8am—wake up, shower, have breakfast
8:40—wake up Max
9—leave for studio
9:15—arrive at studio/unload
10—set-up and start taking drum sounds
1:15pm—lay down scratch guitar/vocals of first song (“Let Me In”)
1:30-4:30—lay down and comp drums for “Let Me In”
4:30—lunch (or dinner?)
5:00—lay down scratch guitar/vocals or second song (“Have Heart”)
5:15—tweak sounds for “Have Heart”
5:30-7:30—lay down and comp drums for “Have Heart”
7:30—get sounds for third track (“Missing”) and get scratch guitar/vocals
8—lay down and comp drums for “Missing”
10:30—lay down scratch guitar/vocals for third song (“I Promise You Relief”)
11pm—Call it a night.

Notes: The studio is so tedious it makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Steve is sitting next to me and he has been in the same chair happy as a clam since 9:30 with only a brief interlude for lunch. Matt Tahaney is our engineer and he’s a cool, knowledgeable guy and a workhorse. He didn’t take a single break all day. Will’s been 100% too. I think this is going to have to be my arrangement for the foreseeable future for recording. I’m going to have to have a really active producer and engineer who can worry about how everything sounds and I can provide the songs and the final say on things but I couldn’t care less about all the little things—the mic tweaks, the editing, and the like—but I respect the hell out of it…It just bores the hell out of me and I can’t hear the changes half of the time.

At this point, however, things are sounding awesome. After the first day, we’re definitely behind schedule but I don’t care how long it takes as long as it ultimately sounds awesome. Plus, I let Will worry about the schedule because he has the best perspective of that kind of thing.

My brother Tim, Marie, Jim all visited today as well.