the album's lead single was created in power plant's studio one, where a 30 × 25 × 18-foot live area was complemented by a 36-channel harrison series 24 console, urei 813b main monitors and a 24-track studer a820 recorder running ampex tape at 30ips. pela explained the process saying, "we had urei monitors in all of the rooms so that there was some continuity, and we also had acoustic research ar18ss, which we discovered at that studio and which i've still got a pair of. they were like hi-fi speakers, they only cost about 80 quid, and once we'd started using them the company stopped making them. they were really nice and natural-sounding, not designed to carry super-low heavy frequencies, but absolutely fine."