SPCodex:Social media/Mellon Collie sessions
This page defines the social media posts for March-August 1995 – Pumpkinland and Chicago Recording Company and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
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After the 13-month Rock Invasion tour in support of Siamese Dream, Corgan immediately began writing songs for the next record, which he knew was going to be a double album. He said, "We almost had enough material to make Siamese Dream a double album. With this new album, I really liked the notion that we would create a wider scope in which to put other kinds of material we were writing."
Flood and Alan Moulder, friends since their early days at London's Trident Studios, were brought in to co-produce. At rehearsals, Corgan shared demos with Flood. Roughly 2/3 of Mellon Collie was tracked at Pumpkinland on an Otari MTR-90 MKII, and Studer A820s were used on the rest at Chicago Recording Company. Flood pushed the band to change its recording practices. Corgan later said "Flood felt like the band he would see live wasn't really captured on record".
The group consciously changed the way they recorded. Before, they had a single room for one recording to happen at a time. This proved frustrating as band members waited hours for others to finish. For Mellon Collie, generally Flood would work with Corgan in the A room on the Otari and an MCI board, and Moulder worked with D'arcy Wretzky and James Iha in the B room on a Pro Tools rig slaved to both TASCAM DA-88 digital recorders and two-inch tape. The mixture of both analog and digital opened up a huge range of sonic possibilities, and aided the adventurous strengths of Mellon Collie on songs like "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" which contained ~70 guitar tracks.
The Pro-Tools rig ran on a Power Macintosh 8100, which has less computing power than most smart phones do today.
While the majority of recordings heard on the final product took place at CRC or Pumpkinland, some material outside the primary sessions such as the "Stumbleine" demo from Sadlands made the final cut.
https://spcodex.wiki/Mellon_Collie_sessionsInstagram photos
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After the 13-month Rock Invasion tour in support of Siamese Dream, Corgan immediately began writing songs for the next record, which he knew was going to be a double album. He said, "We almost had enough material to make Siamese Dream a double album. With this new album, I really liked the notion that we would create a wider scope in which to put other kinds of material we were writing."
Flood and Alan Moulder, friends since their early days at London's Trident Studios, were brought in to co-produce. At rehearsals, Corgan shared demos with Flood. Roughly 2/3 of Mellon Collie was tracked at Pumpkinland on an Otari MTR-90 MKII, and Studer A820s were used on the rest at Chicago Recording Company. Flood pushed the band to change its recording practices. Corgan later said "Flood felt like the band he would see live wasn't really captured on record".
The group consciously changed the way they recorded. Before, they had a single room for one recording to happen at a time. This proved frustrating as band members waited hours for others to finish. For Mellon Collie, generally Flood would work with Corgan in the A room on the Otari and an MCI board, and Moulder worked with D'arcy Wretzky and James Iha in the B room on a Pro Tools rig slaved to both TASCAM DA-88 digital recorders and two-inch tape. The mixture of both analog and digital opened up a huge range of sonic possibilities, and aided the adventurous strengths of Mellon Collie on songs like "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" which contained ~70 guitar tracks.
The Pro-Tools rig ran on a Power Macintosh 8100, which has less computing power than most smart phones do today.
While the majority of recordings heard on the final product took place at CRC or Pumpkinland, some material outside the primary sessions such as the "Stumbleine" demo from Sadlands made the final cut.
https://spcodex.wiki/Mellon_Collie_sessions