Allston, MA, rockers Black Thai, who came on the radar a little bit ago, have finished recording three new songs at the fabled New Alliance Audio studio. I emailed guitarist Scott Fuse (also of Cortez) and asked him to give the lowdown on the process and how it all came out. Here’s what he had to say:

Monday, November 30th

We all met at New Alliance Audio in Cambridge, MA at 10AM. After loading all of the gear into the freight elevator we moved it into the studio and began setting up. Once the drums were set up engineer extraordinaire Ethan Dussault (Caspian, Tides, We’re all Gonna Die) began mic-ing the drum kit to get sounds. Once we got the drums sounding sufficiently thunderous we spent some time working on guitar and bass sounds.

We decided to record the song “Saturation Point” first. We did three takes and listened to the playback. The first take had a much better feel and that’s the one we went with. We worked on “Sinking Ships” next which ended up being a bit of a tough one to capture due to a few drum issues, including a broken snare. We ended up getting a great take after all of the effort, so it worked out in the end. The last song to be recorded was “333” and this went fairly smoothly, with only a few takes necessary.

Tuesday, December 1st

Jim (vocals, guitar) and I (guitar) came in on Tuesday to record some more guitars. We added some extra rhythm guitars to “Sinking Ships” and “333.” Guitar solos were also recorded. On “Sinking Ships” I used a really cool sounding Bass Synthesizer pedal which gave the solo an awesome effect.

Wednesday, December 23rd

Jim and I returned to New Alliance to lay down the vocals. We decided to have Jim add a guitar solo to “Sinking Ships” which came out awesome, especially following the angular-sounding lead that I did with the Bass Synth. His solo sounds like a swarm of angry wasps. So good. The vocal recording went smoothly, Jim banged out “Saturation Point” and “333” saving “Sinking Ships” for last as it is a screamer and we knew he would probably have no voice left by the time it was done.

We still need to do final mixes in the near future. These three songs in conjunction with “The Ladder” and “Satan’s Toolshed” which we recorded earlier this year will probably end up on an EP release down the road.

–Scott

Tags: Allston, Black Thai, Massachusetts, Unsigned bands

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