Beating writer’s block
Misha Mansoor & Jake Bowen Periphery
Misha: Sometimes people ask about writer’s block, and maybe if you’re not the kind of person where staying up late works for your schedule and it’s more difficult, just try a different time where you’re not all there. Maybe wake up super early. For me, staying up very late sometimes will yield looking at things differently and it’s a way to take a different perspective on it.
Jake: It’s interesting, when we’re writing, because we’ll shift our hours. We all keep pretty normal hours, more or less, when we’re not doing music stuff. But, when it comes to an album, when we’re writing, we’ll shift our hours to where we’re getting going in the afternoon, and then we’ll stay up all night. When it comes to recording and tracking stuff, we go back to a normal schedule because you don’t really need to utilise that. Misha used to call it ‘The Focus Hour’.
Mic placement
Jamie Hall Tigercub
A big secret of my sound is DI-ing straight into a console preamp. I doubt I’m the first person to do that, I think it’s what Marc Bolan did with all the T. Rex stuff. But a guitar with no amp, basically straight into a preamp, is something that I’ve always done throughout my career. It’s always given this sound, which I think is probably present on all my guitar sounds. Then, another one I’ve found is a mic placement thing. If you get a ’57 on
