Studio Log: Dream Theater's Falling Into Infinity

Recorded at Avatar Studios
441 W. 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

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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