in the mean while the tech crew was still setting up the recording equiptments i went down to find the rest of the band who had disapeared to find joshua. when i got downstairs they reapeared! hahaha matt the genius was like i think the lift goes diractly to 3rd floor studio. IT DIN! anyw whatever lar. it was just a lift ride.

when we got back they were still setting up and in the mean while we hand some practice jams with matt and me in the control room while joa and josh in the live room. weird uh.okay we where all hooked up to headphones. while the techs were leveling all the mics we were jamming! hahahaha

we did a guide track and joshua's drum tracks first. damn the place was so cold + the fever i was like shivering and my fingers were frozen! the guide track was a joke! it was super hard on the ears with my blaring notes and matt's (zhao sia) vocals.
other then that, joshua was the most solid a perfect track on the first take expcept at the ending crash...he ...WELL....hit the overhead mic's more than the cymbles. hahahaha

RETAKE!
second take was perfect.no mistakes at all. but he din really have much fills (josh:HAHAHA I SCARED MAKE MISTAKES!)
next up was the bass track. by then i was stoning at the connor of the room messaging.
Joa 's track took abit longer than joshua's. having to do a few punch ins .and quite a few takes.

NEXT (everyone:"JUSTYN UR TURN!")
okay okay i went into the room they were mic-ing my amp and i was testing the sound. mentally i went like : volume padel flat volume knobs full but why no sound. BUT the amp wassent turned on! HAHAHA joke...it gets funnier! AMPLIFIER ON! hmmm why still no sound. no one realized my guitar wassent plugged in! LOL

RECORDING TIME! wow this took long so i got comfortable sitting in the connor next to the drum platform.the first few times. wow the timing was AMAZINGLY HORRIBLE! it was so bad we had to use a metanome.hahahaha
after doing the entire song a few times practicing and recording. we had some techinical errors where the tempo was like one bar ahead.so RETAKE! omg...
well that happend a few times including the re-recordings for the punch ins at the bridge and the second verse. but overall it sounded okay after that. i wanted to re -do like one part where i played ONE wrong note.but everyone say there wasen a wrong note.but i was VERY sure i played that note wrong. oh well.

i thought i took very long until we saw matthew. by then joshua had to run!

MATTHEW'S TAKE:
i guessed he was tired after all the waiting and all.but HEY MATT U STILL SOUNDED GREAT!
first time in my life i hear matt (zhao sia) not to mention so many times in one day.but he was awsom! we had a few takes than some punch ins, then they deicided to re-do the whole thing and blah blah blah. i wassent paying attention. i was like feeling SO SICK MAN!

after matt's tracks were nearly done the next group had already arrived for their booking. anyw we took that oppotunity to EAT! we were so damn hungry.

MAKAN!:
so...we went to the kopitiam which was like down the road. there i learned that bugis area has alot of ...hmmm transvestides?

AFTER EATING..we all felt so much better by then it was already about 5.15pm? so long man.
joa was defenately sleepy after eating. hahaha we went back to the studio and slack on the floor in the control room while waiting for the other group.

UNFORTUNATELY...when they were done. it was 15 mins to 6 and that place closed at 6 on saturdays. we coulden contiune the vocals backup tracks. and had to start coiling cables. u should have seen the mess we made.so much for the sign on the door "be professional ,keep ur stuff neat"

finally made our way down stairs . wenqi(our sound engineer for the day) was like. "here cannot flag cab,they wont stop one!"
then freddy the other guy helping her in the studio went and stick his hand out and within like 5 seconds after she made that statement a cab haulted infront of us! hahaha we loaded the taxi with all our gear and were about to get on the cab it was then charmaine called. apparently she was accross the cross junction down the road. so we waited for her to run here. lucky the taxi uncle was a very friendly guy.but he started the meter ...so much for mr nice guy.

when she arrived we all got on the cab and scooted .to my place.the ride back was like super dead except for me and matt yapping away . charmaine seemed stoned/pissed /irritated. we she now these days seem perpetually pissed/irritated. wonder what matt has been doing to her.

and when the cab stopped below my block! the taxi driver got 24 dollars richer. omg..taxies these days are expensive man.

luckly my brother was awake to help me open the door. (din bring the keys) and my parents suddenly left for malaysia this afternoon only will be back tomorrow.

SENDED THE GUYS OFF and when i got home i literally collaps onto the sofa and knocked out. so tired. and just woke up. 0.0

now i feel like so disorientated and cant even lift my arm properlly.alright thats the end i shall go and unpack all the equiptment!




JUSTYN-


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