Recording, Day 2 (Posted by Taylor)

I got to Rhett's house at about 10:30 AM. We pulled out all of the gear from his van and starting hooking shit up. The rig I used was a Mesa Triple Rec through a mesa slant cab, and my Peavey Windsor through a mesa straight cab. I used his band's ESP (not ESP LTD) Eclipse that they just got from ESP, but don't tell Carl. He proceeded to set up the mics and get the ball rolling. We used my AKG as a middle mic and two other mics (can't remember what they were) to rig up the individual cabs. We did four hours worth of rhythm guitar tracking (about 5 songs) and took a lunch break. We came back and I knocked out the last two and we started on the leads. Rhett added a little gain and mids for these. We did the hardest song first (The Frontlines, it has a new solo) and I nailed both tracks in the first two shots. The leads took a little under two hours to finish up, which seems like a lot, because it was. I went on to bass and we had a little trouble with the intonation of the A string, so I had to tune it to the recorded guitar. Pain in the ass. I finished all those in about an hour. After all the set up and tracking time, it was about a 12 hour day. It was rough but it was worth it to get through. I wish I got pictures of the rig. It was out of control.