Paramore Bass/Drums

[JeremySteckel]

Hey Justin! I know the new Paramore has been touched on here before, but I'd love to get a little insight into the process for establishing some of the grooves on AL. Were you and Zac working together extensively on that by yourselves, or was it approached more from a band-in-the-room perspective? I absolutely adore how the bass and kick syncopate with Hayley's vocals throughout the whole album...it's incredible powerful. Also very curious if you mostly use a pick in the studio, or if you primarily play with fingers. Apologies if you'd addressed this a million times, just thought I'd ask instead of hunt through hundreds of posts!

Huge fan of your work!

 

[jmjbassplayer]

Thanks much for the nice thoughts about the work on After Laughter.

This was very much a band-in-room thing. There was a healthy amount of pre-production in which Zac and I worked out the drum and bass relationship prior to going in.

Pick and fingers, mixed.

This album was made in a very old-school fashion. People playing together, listening carefully, and getting it right.

 

[AidanHampson]

I asked Zac about the process when it met him with HalfNoise, and he said he loved sitting opposite you constructing the parts. He described it as 'awesome'.