Illinois Enema Bradness: CWAF recording CROPDUSTER

We recorded our full length album with Marc Bartholomew at Acadia Recording in Portland Maine in the summer of 2004. Conifer and Ocean, 2 local heavies from Maine, had recorded there and we loved the sound they got so we packed up our shit and spent a weekend recording. It took another year before it was done, 4 tracks were used for a split with Noosebomb. Buy it here from All that is Heavy

Here is a download for CROPDUSTER

Below our my notes after the recording was done

*Black Mountain-vocals need improvement,higher pitch...delayed screeching after break, 3 different lyrics for after the break 3:00
*Tighten the Noose-expand lyrics 4:40
*Aftermath-new bass after intro, whole thing if possible(out of tune) 6:20

*Astrobarge-bass track,keep original noise without clean bass mixed in feedback "shooSHOO!" right into arm of the pig, no 4 count 5:40
Arm of the Pig-keep bass intro, redo the rest, redo vocals, double track intro vocals:one high scream, one lower 5:50
*Machine of Death-bass noise in intro, new bass after intro noise ,fading you in rthym to the footsteps into Dirtnap5:00
Dirtnap-Before song starts, have walking noise,refrigerator door opening,matches lighting,then some deep breathing with one last breath into song….bass sounds out of tune? maybe guitar? chiggity check it yo....
Feedback blend into Self Med
2:00
Self MEd...new bass track whole way through, better vocals”fuckin right!” cut into drum machine 12:00
Songs of Madness-bass track(no feedback until end), drum machine too low,
lock with bass drum during first 4 of the part after the drum machine ends, do higher octave for fast part 3:40

*2 forties-mint,right into Killed3:40
Let's get Killed-re-write all lyrics,bass track(sounds out of tune here and there) and extra wah part in middle
Quick pause 5:15
*Mir. Sust.-a little distortion on vocals-reverse delay on the words Mir. Sust, then reverbed out, have ending noise fade out, then quickly fade immediately into AllRise 3:20
All Rise-middle sludge needs more sludge, redo bass track, mix and match between original and new one, bassline during Tom's solo a must, no pause into Nearer 6:00
Nearer to the populous-sound good, maybe some wah noises during the noise riff 2:20
Death Jam(renamed With Nowhere to Burn)-,make more noises, add percussion, african style boombablamps shit! 6:00

A lot of those notes were useful. It always helps to do that because you’ll listen to something and think “oh yeah, needs more ___” and then you get to the studio and your like “duh, I dunno”. Plus the sound in Marc’s control room always sounded insanely good, but before a cd is mastered it won’t sound the same out of all stereos.

We played all of the instruments live and kept most of the guitar, I think I ended up redoing all of my bass tracks. One because the Guild B-300 I used wasn’t intonated right so higher notes were out of tune and second, I didn’t like the tone of that bass, it was too nasally. I used a mexican P-Bass too, but that sounded like crap. I traded the Guild on Ebay for a P-Bass copy by a company called Mann. That bass, which I still have, is super loud and full of tone.