Love Transmitter Production Notes

I wrote this record at home in the winter of 2001 and Tim Powles and I recorded it at his Spacejunk studio over a couple of weeks in the spring.

I played the guitars, most of the bass and sang. Tim played drums as well as filling in where my musical competence failed. He also drafted some of his talented comrades like Dave Skeet to add tasteful things here and there.

We recorded the drums onto an MCI 2 inch machine before transferring off tape into Logic. My vocals and the guitars too (I think) were tracked through the recording path of the 2 inch machine. So it sounds pretty good really.

The guitar I used was the same old 303 Maton with a JMP 50 Watt head. On Transmission the guitar solo is played through a hot rodded Marshall head which I was told used to belong to Les Karski. As anyone who has listened to Head Injuries knows that guy was the Magus on guitar sounds and the head sounded great. The bass was an early 70s Precision with Jon Cullen's old Kruger. The drums, Mapex, plus Tim's collection of classic snares and box of percussion bits.

In those days Spacejunk was in Kevin Jacobsen's building on Glebe Point Rd. Jon let me sleep in his office in Chippendale, a hop across Broadway, to save on expenses. Each morning I would get up and work on lyrics over breakfast before the architects would arrive for work. It was a beautiful time.