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Originally Posted by thenoiseflower  Version 2.0 is WAY up on my list, for sonics and songs, cheers to you!
was that record, version 2.0. all 16 bit digital? how did it come together technicly.
When Garbage works do steve and duke and shirl  take over a song, or are you or steve or billy always the guys editing and carving away at stuff,.. to ask, are you always the producer?
is there a division of power? I've always been interested in how you guys flesh out a tune, the finished song is always so complete, compelling and perfectly executed.
you rockstike |
Garbage are a dysfunctional democracy. All 4 of us have opinions (not just about the songs, everything, what to order for dinner!) So there were many, many times we would butt heads in the studio.
Hard to explain how a song comes together cuz there is no set way we record. Some songs start from jamming, and then Billy Bush would edit a rough arrangement that we would continue to add parts and build it.
Sometimes someone would bring in a demo, and we would deconstruct it and redo it so we could all add our own ideas.
On the first album, I mostly did beats and loops, and Duke and Steve did the guitars and keyboards, From V.2 on, everybody played everything...and on Bleed Like Me I played way more guitars than drums. That is the one thing of being in Garbage that was fun, that you could play any instrument or part, and did not have to fit into a certain role.
In such a free for all situation, it was good to have our engineer Billy Bush there for quality control.
Mixing was tough, becasue I would put a song up, and discover lots of parts I'd never heard before! So part of the mixing process is also arranging, which is why some mixes took 3 or 4 days!