the latter capacity with Lucinda Williams, Marianne Faithful, Chris Whitley, and many more. Le Noise and Black Dub mark the first time Lanois and Howard have worked together again since U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000). Silverlake Sessions For the Silverlake sessions, Mark Howard hired three Neve BCM10 consoles to complement his IZ Radar recorder. These and other gear were relocated to different rooms within the house. For the Silverlake sessions, Mark Howard hired three Neve BCM10 consoles to complement his IZ Radar recorder. These and other gear were relocated to different rooms within the house. Neil Young's Le Noise was almost entirely recorded live, albeit in a very unusual fashion. In two video interviews posted on Neil Young's YouTube channel, Lanois speaks at length about the importance of his house in Silverlake, Los Angeles, in the making of this album. But when speaking to me from New York, he relates that the Silverlake studio has since been dismantled and that he currently spends much time in Jamaica, and also lives out of a suitcase rather a lot. He elaborates about its contents, "I have a Radar 24?track digital machine and the home?made preamps that I worked on with Mark Howard and my brother Bob, and that's it. I don't use EQ or anything, I go straight from the preamps to the Radar. I will listen back to a mixer of some kind, like the Midas 4000 in Canada, which is a very big front?of?house console. Sometimes I'll