Editing Superunknown (section)

==Recording==
Soundgarden began work on the album about two months after finishing its stint on the 1992 [[Lollapalooza]] tour.<ref name="masters">Masters, Drew. "Soundgarden". ''M.E.A.T.'' magazine. March 1994.</ref> The individual band members would work on material on their own and then bring in demos to which the other members of the band would contribute.<ref name="makingmusic">"Soundgarden". ''Making Music''. (ISSN 0269-2651) May 1994.</ref> Frontman [[Chris Cornell]] said that the band members allowed each other more freedom than on past records.<ref>Thompson, Dave. "I Slept With Soundgarden and Other Chilling Confessions". ''[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]''. March 1994.</ref> Guitarist [[Kim Thayil]] observed that even though the band spent as much time writing and arranging as it had on previous albums, it spent a lot more time working on recording the songs.<ref name="grungealbum"/> After two albums with producer [[Terry Date]], the band decided to seek another collaborator. Thayil said, "We just thought we'd go for a change."<ref name="grungealbum">"Let's Make a Grunge Album!". ''[[Raw (music magazine)|Raw]]''. December 8, 1993.</ref> Eventually they settled on producer [[Michael Beinhorn]], who "didn't have his own trademark sound which he was trying to tack on to Soundgarden" and had ideas the band approved.<ref name="makingmusic"/>

The album's recording sessions took place from July 1993 to September 1993 at [[Bad Animals Studio]] in [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], as according to Cornell "there was never a decent studio in Seattle and now there's one with a [[Neve Electronics|Neve]] console, so it seemed obvious to use it".<ref name="makingmusic"/> Bad Animals' resident engineer [[Adam Kasper]], who went on to produce Soundgarden's following albums, assisted Beinhorn on the recording process.<ref name=spin/> Soundgarden took the approach of recording one song at a time.<ref>Peiken, Matt. "Soundgarden's Matt Cameron: Breaking New Ground". ''[[Modern Drummer]]''. June 1994.</ref> The drum and bass parts were recorded first for each song, and then Cornell and Thayil would lay down their parts over top.<ref name="masters"/> Cornell said that getting to know Beinhorn contributed to the length of time Soundgarden spent working on the album.<ref name="gardenoftheunknown">"Garden of the Unknown". ''[[Melody Maker]]''. November 27, 1993.</ref> The band spent time experimenting with different drum and guitar sounds, as well as utilizing techniques such as layering, resulting in an expansive production sound.<ref name="gardenoftheunknown"/> Cornell said, "Michael Beinhorn was so into sounds. He was so, almost, anal about it, that it took the piss out of us a lot of the time&nbsp;... By the time you get the sounds that you want to record the song, you're sick and tired of playing it."<ref name="blackholesons">"Black Hole Sons!". ''[[Kerrang!]]''. August 12, 1995.</ref> Beinhorn tried to add many of his preferred musicians to mold the band's sound, in what ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' described as "weaning the band from brute force, giving it the impetus to invest in a more subtle power". For instance, prior to recording the vocals of "[[Black Hole Sun]]", Beinhorn made Cornell listen to [[Frank Sinatra]].<ref name=bill/>

''Superunknown'' lasts for 15 songs clocking on approximately 70 minutes because according to Cornell, "we didn't really want to argue over what should be cut".<ref name=spin>Anderson, Stacy. [http://www.spin.com/2014/06/oral-history-soundgarden-superunknown-anniversary-reissue/ "Get Yourself Control: The Oral History of Soundgarden's 'Superunknown'"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003052353/http://www.spin.com/2014/06/oral-history-soundgarden-superunknown-anniversary-reissue/ |date=October 3, 2015 }}. ''Spin'', June 2014</ref> Soundgarden took a break in the middle of recording to open for [[Neil Young]] on a ten-day tour of the United States.<ref name="neely"/> The band then brought in [[Brendan O'Brien (music producer)|Brendan O'Brien]] to mix the album, as Beinhorn felt the band needed "a fresh pair of ears"; O'Brien had come recommended by [[Pearl Jam]] guitarist [[Stone Gossard]].<ref name="sleepless"/> Thayil called the mixing process "very painless",<ref name="sleepless"/> and bassist [[Ben Shepherd]] said it was "the fastest part of the record".<ref name="makingmusic"/>

Footage of the band recording and mixing the song "Kickstand" was featured in the ''[[Bill Nye the Science Guy]]'' episode "Sound".