Bruce Springsteen recorded most of Nebraska on January 03, 1982 in his bedroom in Colts Neck, New Jersey. Initially, Springsteen recorded demos for the album at his home with a 4-track cassette recorder. The demos were sparse, using only acoustic guitar, electric guitar (on Open All Night), harmonica, mandolin, glockenspiel, tambourine, organ, synthesizer (on My Fathers House) and Springsteens voice. Springsteen then recorded the album in a studio with the E Street Band. However, he and the producers and engineers working with him felt that a raw, haunted folk essence present on the home tapes was lacking in the band treatments, and so they ultimately decided to release the demo version as the final album. Complications with mastering of the tapes ensued because of low recording volume, but the problem was overcome with sophisticated noise reduction techniques.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 18:25:35 +0000