Studio Log: Dream Theater's Falling Into Infinity

Recorded at Avatar Studios

Date: June 02, 1997 - July 30, 1997


6/02/97 Monday Setup and get sounds


6/03/97 Tuesday You Not Me
Basic tracks


6/04/97 Wednesday You Not Me
Guitar, bass and keyboard overdubs
Burning My Soul
Basic tracks


6/05/97 Thursday Burning My Soul
Guitar, bass, and keyboard fixes
Lay down several rough vox

6/06/97 Friday Lines in the Sand
Basic tracks


6/09/97 Monday Lines in the Sand
Record keyboard solos and band intro
Miscellaneous guitar and keyboard overdubs

6/09/97 Tuesday Lines in the Sand
Bass tracks
More miscellaneous guitar and keyboard overdubs

6/11/97 Wednesday Hollow Years
Basic tracks

Keyboard overdubs

Acoustic guitars


6/12/97 Thursday Hollow Years
Piano overdubs

Edge and 12 String guitar

Classical / Guitar solo

Fretless / Bass


6/13/97 Friday Hollow Years
Vox

JP and MP background vox

Percussion (shaker, crashes, marching snare and tambourine)


6/14/97 Saturday Hollow Years
Redo classical guitar solo

Mix


6/16/97 Monday Take Away My Pain
Record basic tracks


6/17/97 Tuesday Take Away My Pain
Stick overdubs on verse

Small kit overdubs

Space guitar overdubs

Hawaiian keyboard overdubs

Bass overdubs on chorus


6/18/97 Wednesday Take Away My Pain
Heavy guitars

12 string acoustic guitars

Percussion (shaker, maraca, triangle, Phil Collins toms)

U2 guitars

More bass

Keyboards on bridge


6/19/97 Thursday Take Away My Pain
Guitar solo

Vox
Burning My Soul
Vox

Background vox (MP, JP, DS)


6/20/97 Friday You Not Me
Vox

Work on changing key on chorus


6/23/97 Monday You Not Me (new chorus)
Re-record guitar, bass, and keyboards

Re-record vox

Percussion (shaker and maraca)


6/24/97 Tuesday You Not Me
Backup vox (James)

Background vox (MP, JP, DS)

More percussion (tambourine and vibraslap)


6/25/97 Wednesday Burning My Soul
Record talk box guitar and keys

Record MP whisper

James re-records some vox

Background vox (MP, JP, DS)


6/26/97 Thursday Lines in the Sand
Guitar solo


6/27/97 Friday Lines in the Sand
Finish guitar solo

All lead vox

Extra keyboards (organ, lead sound, lava)

Additional guitar and bass overdubs


6/30/97 Monday Just Let Me Breathe
Record basics

Guitar overdubs


7/01/97 Tuesday Just Let Me Breathe
Bass and keyboard overdubs

Guitar and keyboard unison section (note by note)

Drum intro overdubs

Vox


7/02/97 Wednesday Peruvian Skies
Record basics

Rhodes piano

Heavy guitars


7/03/97 Thursday Peruvian Skies
12 String guitars

Clean guitars

Guitar solo

Mellotron

Bass


7/05/97 Saturday Burning My Soul
Mixed by Kevin Shirley


7/06/97 Sunday You Not Me
Mixed by Kevin Shirley


7/07/97 Monday Mastering
Burning My Soul

You Not Me

Hollow Years
Just Let Me Breathe
MP and JP background vox

Mixed by Kevin Shirley
Peruvian Skies
Re-record guitar solo


7/08/97 Tuesday Mastering
Just Let Me Breathe
New Millenium
Basic tracks


7/09/97 Wednesday Lines in the Sand
Record Lifeson guitars

Background vox (MP, JP, DS)


7/10/97 Thursday
(Doug Pinnick) Peruvian Skies
Acoustic guitars

Wah guitars on choruses
Lines in the Sand
Doug Pinnick vox

Background vox (JL)

Record keyboards (strings)


7/11/97 Friday Peruvian Skies
Record fretless bass

Vocals, lead and backup (JL)

Background vox (MP & JP)

Six string acoustic


7/12/97 Saturday Lines In The Sand
Mixed by Kevin Shirley


7/13/97 Sunday Peruvian Skies
Mixed by Kevin Shirley


7/14/97 Monday Mastering
Lines in the Sand

Peruvian Skies
Take Away My Pain
Vox harmonies


7/15/97 Tuesday Take Away My Pain
Mixed by Kevin Shirley
New Millenium
Keyboard overdubs

Stick overdubs


7/16/97 Wednesday Mastering
Take Away My Pain


7/17/97 Thursday New Millenium
Guitar overdubs
Anna Lee
Record basics


7/18/97 Friday Hollow Years
Redo vocals
Anna Lee
Re-cut guitar, bass and piano


7/19/97 Saturday Remix Hollow Years


7/21/97 Monday Anna Lee
Keyboards (organ, strings, mellotron)

Leslie guitar

Percussion (tambourine, fan)


7/22/97 Tuesday
New Millenium
Finish guitars
Anna Lee
Vox


7/23/97 Wednesday Trial of Tears
Basic tracks


7/24/97 Thursday Trial of Tears
Bass

Keyboards / Lead

Acoustic guitars


7/25/97 Friday Hell's Kitchen
Record basics


7/26/97 Saturday Anna Lee
Mixed by Kevin Shirley


7/27/97 Sunday Trial of Tears
Vox


7/28/97 Monday New Millenium
Mixed by Kevin Shirley


7/29/97 Tuesday Trial of Tears
Mixed by Kevin Shirley
Hell's Kitchen
Mixed by Kevin Shirley


7/30/97 Wednesday Master, sequence and deliver Falling Into Infinity



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