thought I was nuts – but the band was great, very supportive", and they agreed to pursue it. Rabin said that Kaye was particularly enthusiastic and supportive in making the album, and described his role like "almost as a kind of co-producer". Although Kaye is credited to just playing the Hammond organ, Rabin said "his input was a lot more". After a period of research, Rabin and his engineer and mixer Michael Jay linked four Apple Macintosh computers to a single IBM machine, each running the digital audio workstation software Digital Performer developed by Mark of the Unicorn, and saved onto Dynatec hard drives. As they worked on the album Rabin and Jay noted errors they encountered, or suggested new functions they needed to complete the recording process, to which the programmers would implement the desired changes and update the studio's software accordingly. Anderson said that such teething problems with the software was why Talk took so long to finish. Despite this setback, Rabin said that the ability to edit tracks digitally resulted in fewer takes from the band which kept the songs fresh. Rabin clarified that the album features live instrumentation from the band throughout, as the idea of recording onto a computer had some people incorrectly assume that it was computerised music. He also noted that Squire became frustrated with the digital recording process and the problems it caused, but the bassist later said he preferred the sound of his bass from recording digitally over the digital tape he had used previously. He played his Rickenbacker bass, a Tobias four-string bass, a custom made Mouradian bass, and Rabin's Casio computer guitar fed through a synthesiser. An initial hard drive with 5.5 GB of memory soon became insufficient as an estimated 27 microphones were used to capture White's drums in real time, which led to the decision to dedicate more tracks for the drums in the final mix, rather than condensing them. Until that point, each song was roughly 350 MB in size. In its unedited form, the album took up over 34 GB of memory. Production halted briefly following the Northridge, California earthquake in January 1994 in order to protect the equipment from subsequent tremors. The album was mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering in Los Angeles. Artwork The album's cover was designed by German-American graphic artist Peter Max. Squire held some reservations about the design, despite