New Rising Studios in England is one of the recording locations for 
The Robin Trower Band 
I thought some may find it interesting to see where this is all happening 

Owner/producer/engineer Mark Daghorn 
keeps a diary on line about all the comings and goings 
and it gives a real insiders view of how the recordings go from his viewpoint. 
  My thanks to Mark for his kind permission to use these entries regarding 
the current Trower band recordings:

.....From Marks' online diary  

An inside perspective from the studio
August 27,2002 
   It was also an honour to meet Robin Trower a couple of weeks ago. He came to view the studio with 
   producer Dave Bronze (currently Eric Clapton's bass player), and they booked a week in September to 
   track an album.

Sept 3, 2002 
   Robin Trower at New rising - 
   Legendary guitarist Robin Trower will be recording his new album at New Rising during September. 
   The album will be produced by Dave Bronze and engineered by Mark Daghorn. 

 

Oct 11,2002 
................. Robin Trower arrived. I must admit that I was probably the most nervous about a session 
 I've ever been. It was a truly awesome line up with Robin:- Dave Bronze co producing and  playing bass, 
 Davey Pattison on vocals and Pete Thompson on drums.   Well, a top bunch of blokes they are and they make 
an engineer's job incredibly easy as they are all  incredible players. This is probably the best loved of all of the Robin Trower line ups and it was the first  time they had played together for twelve years. 
   So, we set up the bass and drums in the live room ,the guitar amps in the dining room and Davey gave us the pleasure of hearing his incredible voice in the control room.   Over the course of a week we managed to do most of the tracking for nine songs with Robin pulling some incredible guitar work out of the hat on several occasions, but never more so than on the day before last  of the session when we were tracking one of the slower songs: 
The plan was that there was going to be a lengthy guitar solo at the end of the track which would be overdubbed later with Robin playing rhythm  guitar on the live take. 
   As it turned out, after a few bars of playing rhythm, Robin launched in to what turned out to be the most  jaw dropping guitar solo I have probably ever heard, which continued for about five minutes without one bit of repetition or duff note.  I felt incredibly privileged to be in the room, let alone recording it. 

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Oct 16, 2002 
Robin Trower is returning to New Rising during November to continue tracking his new album. As 
   previously, the sessions will be produced by Robin and Dave Bronze, and engineered by Mark Daghorn. 

 Nov 13, 2002 
   Robin Trower returns to New Rising for the third time, later this year, to continue tracking his 'Eleven' 
   album. 

 Jan. 31,2003
I asked Mark to share a few thoughts for my site and he kindly wrote the following :
    As a producer and studio owner, every now and then I get an enquiry for work that gets me all excited. 
    One Sunday morning, Dave Bronze called me to enquire about the my studio’s availability for late September. As it happened,  we had the week he was looking for available so he decided to come up for a look around. 
   Then he mentioned that the session was a Robin Trower album. 
    Now, I’ve been in to Robin’s music for a very long time, so the prospect of having him in my studio was an exciting one to say the least. 
    The following Sunday,  Robin and Dave came up for a look around, and confirmed the booking.  I was extremely pleased and excited, but unfortunately, that same afternoon I ended up firing my assistant 
engineer, unwittingly placing myself in a situation where I would end up engineering Robin’s album. 
    At New Rising, we divide the studio’s work between sessions that I am producing, and ‘dry hire’, where the artist brings their own producer, and we provide an assistant engineer, so under normal circumstances, as Robin and Dave were producing the album, I wouldn’t have been in the studio, but as our replacement assistant only started work the week before, I decided to take the job on myself. 
    I was expecting something of a tough call, as when you’re used to producing records and having the final call on decisions, it can be very hard to not be a part of the decision making process. Still, I thought, it should be fun. 
And it was a lot of fun: Most of the bands I work with these days are in the rock and metal field. It’s very much where my heart lies - I love guitars, particularly really loud, distorted ones, but it was a welcome relief to record a band of this calibre and ability. 
    Everything was tracked live originally, although Robin decided to re cut a lot of the guitar parts. Some of Davey Pattison’s guide vocals, sung in the control room, were eventually kept as the master vocals (On two occasions if I remember correctly).  Davey is a truly remarkable singer, and an extremely nice guy to boot, 
as is drummer Pete Thompson. 
   The first week of the session saw us getting nine songs down, to Otari Radar 24 track digital, and there wasn’t a duff song among them. 
  I honestly think that this album is Robin’s finest work. His song writing is, without doubt, at an all time peak. 
Robin returned on his own to do some more tracking during early November, and expressed concerns over the tracks sounding too digital, so we decided to copy them over to two inch analogue, and in the process, found the key to how the record needed to sound. 
    Another session in early December saw us complete a lot more tracking, and mixing five songs to half inch analogue tape (I can never go back to DAT again!). 
    Robin returned again just before Christmas, the day after our replacement assistant engineer had cracked up and stolen our Apple Mac computer, which had all of the rhythm tracks from the album I’m currently working on, on it. 
   We had managed to get it back, but were a little shaken up. Despite all of this, we managed to nail three more mixes during the session. 
   Due to my prior commitment to another project (the debut album by UK band Vero),  I was unable to take on the tracking of the final two songs for the album, so the guys went to Intimate in London. However, I spoke to Robin a few days ago and it seems that there is a strong possibility that I will end up doing some more tracking and mixes in the near future. 
   So all in all, it was a fantastic experience, and there is a treat in store for all Trower fans when they hear this album.