MESHUGGAH Drummer Tomas Haake - "I Didn't Have An Engineer, I Recorded The Drums Myself"
March 21, 2008, 16 years ago
PopMatters.com has issued an interview with MESHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake. The following is an excerpt:
“For this one I didn’t have an engineer, I recorded the drums myself. I had a laptop computer… online, I controlled the control room so to speak. So I did all the takes by myself. The negative aspect of doing that, or what is really hard is to know when to quit. That actually made it take a lot more time to choose the takes and put every track together completely, as far as drums went. I did so many takes, I would just keep going and going and going…That was the hard part, I spent probably three weeks sitting in the control room afterwards just choosing the takes, just computer work for 12 hours a day. So in that sense it probably would have been better to have an engineer who would be, ‘Let’s scrap that take and do another one,’ but on the other hand I had a lot to choose from and it ended up good anyway.”Read the entire interview at PopMatters.com.
