Some songs on Bleed Like Me have 60 or 70 tracks — but not all playing at the same time. “It might just be an extra texture on the chorus,” he says. “But most of them boil down to a riff or a chord progression that Duke and Steve would play. Then we would layer the electronic things underneath the guitars. But the electronic elements are still way secondary to the core of the record.”

“We wanted to turn the amps on,” says Vig, “and crank it up, versus just plugging in and doing the same four bars over and over a hundred times.”

(source: eqmag.com)