Recording bands can be complex, but Russ always finds a way to get the job done. Here, he explains that the most difficult thing is correcting a recording after the fact.
I don't know if any of it's ever seemed hard. I mean sometimes it's more complex so it takes longer to set up or something like that, but I don't know, nothing's ever felt overly hard. I mean anything difficult was more based on it was our 18th hour and the producer wanted to do one more song or something like that and it was hard to stand up and not fall asleep. But I don't know, I mean none of it's ever seemed overly difficult from a technical standpoint.
Although some things take way longer than other things. I mean the hardest things have been probably repairing some kind of mistake I made along the way or something like that, and those kind of things could be because I did something stupid or whatever. Maybe fixing something that was a mistake that I did, but I mean it used to be difficult to fly. It's super easy to fly stuff around now in Pro Tools, but when you had an analog machine and something got erased by accident you had to fly it in from somewhere else, that was not an easy thing. I mean you could bring a guy in with a sampler and he would sample it and then you would have to move it and he would try to play the sampler back in the right time and you record it and punch it back in. I mean those were probably the hardest kind of things for recovering from some kind of mistake that either myself or somebody else made.
(That’s some recording studio wizardry, right there, folks ;-)