What is behind it? If I wanna burn a CD, I just record it via microphone and then I burn it to a raw-CD. Ready! Hahaaa! Yes, and that is exactly what we did decades ago and where we got our first experiences. But in those days we never achieved to nail down our sound and the vibe we were after.

arrangement and recording

I don't want to open a discourse about recording techniques and abilities. Just some impressions should be adequate to show the excitement and the magic which is embodied in the process.

For me it had always been a dream - and still is - to catch power and emotion and record it to harddisc. That is the art: First unleash the deepest, the most peculiar, the most magic - and then catch it!

mixing

After having arranged and recorded all tracks the next step is mixing!

How do we choose the volume level of every instrument and how can we tweak the sounds in order to achieve that marvellous sound which we have in mind?

Unfortunately the prework in terms of the technical setup of a DAW is decisive because it determines how we can work and what abilities we woud have.  For the final result a proper mix is most important, but it's the most difficult part also.

mastering

Mastering can be regarded as the last polishing of the stereo-audio track. Here we put the focus on the overall-feeling, the loudness and the transients. But more than one time we had to go back to the mix and correct things.

Often we had situations which felt like a deadlock. We couldn't advance to a better sound, we thought we always stepped on the same brick again and again .... But we stirred up our technical creativity to surpass these problems.

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last not least ...

Yeah, last not least we had fun in fieldrecording. One of our songs - guess which - needed authentic sounds of a special urban quarter.

The cover should fit to the songs - directly and in a figurative way. The thinking and inventing did start in october 2011 already.

I think we got it pretty well.