Having recorded in such a cutting edge fashion , Squire preferred the sound he got from his bass with the computer than previous digital tape systems that he had used . He played his Rickenbacker bass , a Tobias four-string bass , a custom made Mouradian bass , and Rabin 's Casio computer guitar that was run through a synthesiser . Early into the production of '' Talk '' , White said an initial 5.5 GB of space was insufficient due to the estimated 27 microphones used to record his drumming in real time and the decision to use more tracks for the drums in the final mix as opposed to 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 was delayed for a short while following the Northridge , California earthquake on 17 January 1994 to protect the equipment from damage caused by subsequent tremors . The album was then mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering in Los Angeles
Northridge , California earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
Talk (Yes album)