Extreme
Robert Sandall, Q, October 1992
"I HATE IT, I hate it, I hate it," says Nuno Bettencourt, nodding at the 48-track mixing console of the New River Studio, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. "I despise recording. You've written the song. You know how you want it to sound. Now the painful part is making the thing sound on tape the way you'd imagined it..."
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