Some dirt in the machinery to make the whole picture we are painting more real and pretty. I do think there should be more punk in everything. I prefer to make music over anything else, genre is not important to me. Is there any genre you prefer over the other? You have been making records for 20+ years and recorded anything from rock to punk, hardcore and extreme metal. I always had a set of Røde NT 1000 mics in the corners behind the drum kit, and if you ever wanted 49 Hz on your drums – that was where to get it.” Due to the measurements of the room, some frequencies get crazy and can be used to get some extreme sounds. It has been a constant inspiration over the years. ![]() The pool gives you a very hard and aggressive attack, but can also provide a much softer “wishy-washy” sound if you play with the room microphones. Since then, many albums were recorded using the pool as a drum room: The Haunted, Moonspell, Sick of It All, HateSphere, Illdisposed, Ektomorf, Mnemic, Cataract, Born from Pain, Velvet Volume, The Boy That Got Away, I’ll Be Damned. ![]() It was a mess, but the sound was amazing. The studio wasn’t even in the same building, so we had to open a window and run a multi cable down the stairs outside through the door to do the recording. My friend Alex from Heaven Shall Burn liked the idea so much that he wanted to record the drums for the band’s next album “Invictus” in it, and the first album was recorded. Huge stadium sound! I started to talk about it to a few of my friends and did a short test recording for a local hardcore band, which was in theory a horrible idea, but turned out pretty awesome sounding. ![]() It sounded like every Scorpions/Bon Jovi ’80s record played at the same time. One day I thought I would set it up for my son to play with and when I hit that bass drum the first time it was the most amazing feeling. ![]() I had a much smaller studio back then that I re-arranged so I didn’t have a drum room anymore and therefore nowhere to put my drum kit…and since the pool was empty I just put it there. “The whole pool/studio thing started mostly by accident.
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