Recording secrets revealed!

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To most music listeners, the process of being a musician and making a record remains a mystery – How do they write those songs?, What goes on in the mixing room? What makes music good? And, after all that hard work, how do they cope with the pressures of fame?

Here, we reveal some of the secrets, with behind the scenes pictures from the recent MarineVille mixing sessions.

Once mixes have been completed, we give them the ‘Peter Garrett’ test. Here Geoffrey applies the Midnight Oil front man’s legendary ‘rubber band boogie’ to examine whether ‘Let’s Build A House’ will indeed rock the dance floor.

Disagreements over mixing can be hard to stomach. Here an argument over kick drum frequencies leads pot-whacking lothario Geoffrey D. Trail to demonstrate the heart of the beat.

Guitarist David Hall displays an unusual reluctance for the spotlight. Shunning the cries of screaming teenagers, David avoids the hair-tearing, clothes-shredding schemozzle by sneaking in to concerts adorned in this home-made burqua.

When it comes to hit-making only the kids know ‘what’s goin’ on’ – and ‘down’. Suitably attired in hipster shades, Mark’s cardie-shirt combo that traces a delicate chiaroscura from burgundy to orange. Now that the children recognise him as a hip cat of the underground, the secrets of today's chart success will be his.

POSTED BY Mark ON 30 June 2004