Ardent Riffs and Dingly Solos: A Photo Essay

So, I'm currently in the control room at Ardent Audio watching as Bert and Gary lay down the bass and guitar for Daytripper. When this is done, we get to eat some delicious greasy spoon diner food and spend the rest of the afternoon adding all sorts of fun bells and whistles. Literal bells and whistles.

Nick manning the mixer
Pacifico bottle resized to show magnitude of disaster

Immediately prior to recording this Gary was in the studio talking to Nick, our sound engineer. Gary wanted to know if the main recording studio command console/mixer was the single most expensive piece of equipment in the room. This question is made more poignant by the fact that Gary spilled a beer on it yesterday which brought on about a half hour of frantic, heart-pounding cleaning, button wiping, and function testing. Luckily, we've avoided any major debacles today and have been quite productive.

Bert manning the bass
I swear, I have an identical picture of Bert from when we recorded at Pike

Gary in his room
The lighting is, by Gary's terms, 'sexytime' lighting

James manning his chair
James slept for 12 hours and yet, was still sleepy the whole day