Collector's Corner #16

Below is an inside look into the record-keeping of the Studio. This page actually dates back to 1991 when the 4-track recorder was bought for the Studio. After recording a few songs it became evident that some sort of log was needed to keep track of what songs were on what tapes. So a Master Log book was created. This is the first page created for the Studio log.

Let's take a tour of the page, shall we?

• The title of the page came from the time frame these songs were recorded. The "Olympus era" (c1991, named for the album that came out of these songs) took 2 pages in the log book. Following the "Olympus era" was the "Underwater Problem Factory era" (c1991-1992) that titled pages 3 and 4 as "UPF 1" and "UPF 2."
• The title is "Olympus 2" even though this was the first page in the logbook. The pages were titled before the recording dates were added to the page. So when it came time to title the first few pages they were mixed up and page 1 became "Olympus 2" and page 2 became "Olympus 1" and the error was never corrected.
• The date of 8/6/95 in the upper right corner indicates when the page was titled.
• On the upper left side of the page is the word "counter." This was to be the column where the counter numbers of the recorder were written down for each song so a song could easily be found on the tape. But this was soon abandoned as it took too much time.
• The letters on the far left of the page indicate which project the song belongs too. At the time, Mune Mud was the only project so most of the these songs belong to MM, or Mune Mud.
• The yellow highlight next to some songs indicate that an MP3 exists of that song. The highlighting is out-of-date as most of those songs are now in the computer.
• In the center of the page are the song titles. Some songs don't have titles but a short descriptor of what the song was.
• As previously stated, the recording dates were added later. And those dates were not written down for most of the earlier recordings so the indicated time frames are the best guess as to when these songs were recorded.
• The next column has "T=" for each song. This became the tempo column. A T=60 means the tempo was 60 bpm (beats per minutes).
• The far right column shows the running time of each song.

To date there are 28 pages in the Master Log book.

And this first page is not in the Metal XOR Studio Museum. It is in the Master Log book that is still being used in the Studio today!