Draft:Weezer Recording Chronology: 2001: Difference between revisions

Most of the below recordings started out as run-throughs by the band to get the drums and bass down, with the vocals and guitars being regarded as "scratch takes" and being re-taped, or in some cases, even taped over later. During recording, one of the assistant engineers would make DAT tapes of the day's work as backups, which were then copied over, where [[Karl Koch]] would make CDs of the sessions. In some cases, Koch was asked to make edits of the in-progress recordings so the band could test out different arrangements if needed (this process would go on far beyond recording wrapped up, with changes being made during or even after mastering in some instances).

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During the process of mastering, somewhere in April 2001, (when some songs were in fact still being edited and having last second mix fixes done), someone at a mastering studio thought he had the new weezer album and stole unfinished, incorrectly mastered copies of many of the soon to be released tracks, plus some tracks that were slated for b-side status. These tracks made it out as mp3s and were announced as "the new album", when in fact the order was wrong, the mixes were wrong, the mastering was wrong, and even what tracks that were included was wrong. It was a classic example of how difficult it was to keep an album under wraps in todays age of digital propagation and outright piracy, and led to a lot of unnecessary confusion. (the actual sessions were confusing enough as it was! In fact the wrong edit of "Always" even ended up on the UK single months later, due to some mislabelled masters.)|[https://web.archive.org/web/20140519062342if_/http://daveandnikolai.com/wzr/classic/03_Recording_History/WeezRecHist13.html Weezer Recording History, Page 13]}}