 Recording began on March 2007 at Studio 606 in Dave Grohl 's Virginia home 's basement ( the studio has since been moved to Northridge , California ) . As the band took a ten @-@ day break in April , Grohl thought that the record needed another uptempo song , so he spent his time developing an unfinished song that became " The Pretender " . The sessions wrapped in mid @-@ June , and for the first time the band did not feel the need to rerecord any song . Grohl stated that while In Your Honor was a double album because he felt " schizophrenic " to alternate between loud and acoustic songs , Norton helped on sequencing the tracks into " an album that makes sense " . 
