"I was hardly sort of letting it go and not troubling about taking charge of it," Smith said. "I suppose there's a short bit more part in my voice because of it."
Character is something for which Default is known. The band - whose members include Jeremy Hora (guitar), Dave Benedict (bass) and Danny Craig (drums) - was observed by Nickelback's Chad Kroeger shortly after forming in Vancouver in 1999.
Kroeger's interest in Default's demo led him to bring his back to the product of "The Fallout," which boasted singles like "Deny," "Count On Me" and "Wasting My Time." A Juno - the Canadian equivalent of an Emmy award - for Best New Group followed in 2002.
The group followed their first album with the Canadian gold-certified "Elocation" and "One Thing Remains." Released Oct. 26 in the United States - nearly a twelvemonth later it hit stores in Canada - "Comes and Goes" was recorded in Los Angeles with longtime producer Bob Marlette (Ozzy Osbourne, Shinedown), who also produced Default's last album.
"It was great," Smith said about running with Marlette. "He produced our last record as well. We did it a little different this time. He came up to Vancouver and spent some time with us at the initial stages of the writing, which he didn't do last time, which was good. Bob is keen to fall out with. He's a big guy and a large producer."
"Turn It On" will be the new set's first single, and Smith said he's proud of it.
"This entire album's a little more polished. On our last record, I did a lot of the vocals and all the harmonies in a day and a half. This book I spent a couple weeks doing them. I pride myself at being jolly adept at what I do. It took a couple run-throughs to get all the stuff figured out and get it where it inevitably to be."
Zac Maloy, former lead vocalist for the Oklahoma City band the Nixons, collaborated on some of the new songs.
"We sat down with him in the other stages of the song,as opposed to later on when the strain was almost done," Smith said. "That was a short bit different. Everything else was similar. We were comfortable with Bob [Marlette], too, and how he liked to do things. We were comfortable with how we liked to follow up with songs."
Co-writing with a songwriter is enjoyable most of the time, Smith said. "As tenacious as you can fall out with the guy and take a good joke in between, it becomes very relaxed and very natural," he explained. "But if you sit down with someone and they're very dry, it can be tough. Can't all be business. You get to throw a good hang too."
Currently, the ring is having a good hang with friends Hinder on their "All American Nightmare" tour (see itinerary at right), and Smith said Default fans can ask a live show.
"We're only a high-energy band that takes pride in bringing what you see on the book to the last show," Smith said. "I got sick - when I was a kid - just of loving a band, and then going to see them live, and the singer was awful or they simply couldn't pull it off. So with this band, we all make certain we put the act in to get that sound across."
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