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Just when the “g-g-g-guitars” were done we decided that one song needed acoustic guitars for a different folkish touch and we had to devote some more time for that the last weekend. Fred “north” Norrman came down to get it done, but it was harder than we thought. Playing an acoustic guitar and making it sound great is one thing, but actually recording it and making it sound great kinda makes you wonder how some people can do full acoustic guitar albums without any picking or strings noise on the fretboard, but it turned out fine eventually. Yeah.

Last monday it was time for mr synthesizer man Frank Default to come down the rathole for a week. Frank owns a real Rhodes piano, so we thought we’d save all those parts for the real deal and mic it up instead of keeping the midi programming hooked up to a software plugin.

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11 Sep 2009, Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona, Spain

12 Sep 2009, Fiestas de Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain

It has been play time down the rathole! Like kids in a toy store we lined up a wide arsenal of analogue and digital pedals for any needs. We brought out all kinds of different effects to color both clean and dirty guitar parts as well as fx leads and anything in the twilight zone between guitar and synth sounds. Sometimes we’ve been wanting to go for a old broken 70’s sound, maybe spiced with old analoge pedals such as Sovtek’s Small Stone pedal that was built in the shell of an old landmine. Multieffect pedals such as the flagship in TC Electronics G-System, just as the Boss GT-3, my old companion for the last 10 years has been up and running to provide some of my custom settings maybe for the last time… From Guyatone, Seymour Duncan and Electro-harmonix we used various tube pedals such as a couple of overdrives, reverbs, stereo delays and tremolos and compressors. No need to put your trust in plug-ins, if you can have the real deal in hardware.

On the amplification side we explored the clean channels of both the Alligator and Mr. Hector amps and the good ol’ rectifer together with Celestion equipped speaker cabs from Laboga. Great thick, full clean tone.

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We’re proud to announce that we will be supporting Porcupine Tree on the following dates of their headline tour in autumn.

17 Oct     GERMANY             BREMEN                ALADIN
18 Oct     DENMARK             COPENHAGEN     VEGA
19 Oct     SWEDEN                STOCKHOLM        ARENAN
21 Oct     FINLAND                HELSINKI               ICE HALL
23 Oct     NORWAY                OSLO                      SENTRUM SCENE
24 Oct      SWEDEN               LUND                     MEJERIET