Editing Version 2.0 (section)

==Recording==
{{quote box|quote=I don't think we have ever felt we know where we are going. Songs are an on-going process. It's hard to find a point when it's done. The only thing that makes us stop is time and people start yelling to finish.|width=28%|source=—Steve Marker<ref>{{cite news |last=Jansen |first=Ara |url=http://www.garbage.com/press/articles/199805/west_australian/index.html |title=Garbage clean up from road works |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |date=May 21, 1998 |issn=0312-6323 |access-date=February 12, 2015 |via=Garbage.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011007175417/http://www.garbage.com/press/articles/199805/west_australian/index.html |archive-date=October 7, 2001}}</ref>}}

Garbage began writing their second album, which would go under the working title of ''Sad Alcoholic Clowns'',<ref name="face"/> in March 1997 in the band's label head [[Jerry Moss]]'s vacation house in [[Friday Harbor, Washington|Friday Harbor]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]. The group [[Demo (music)|demoed]] and made rough outlines for new songs. When they felt they had made a good start, Garbage took the work they made in Washington back to their [[Madison, Wisconsin]], base at [[Smart Studios]] and begin fleshing out the ideas and rough sketches over the following year. The group recorded all of their work for the second album through a 48-track digital system digitally, direct to [[hard drive]]s utilizing a 24-bit [[Pro Tools]] rig.<ref name="kerrang"/> While only one recorder was up in the early sessions, eventually another was installed to edit, and ultimately a third so Manson could record vocals while the other members fiddled with recordings. Vig estimated that the sample collage approach led to "probably have five albums' worth of music",<ref name="CMJ"/> and songs featuring up to 120 audio tracks. After the digital file was ready, mixing was done in an analog tape deck, which held only 14 tracks.<ref name="program">{{cite web |last=Sibilla |first=Gianni |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/151505/garbage-get-with-program-on-version-20/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151130021732/http://www.mtv.com/news/151505/garbage-get-with-program-on-version-20/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 30, 2015 |title=Garbage Get With Program On ''Version 2.0'' |publisher=[[MTV News]] |date=April 16, 1998 |access-date=December 14, 2015}}</ref>

Much of the percussion was recorded in a disused candy factory located in Madison; Vig, [[Steve Marker]] and sound engineer [[Billy Bush (record producer)|Billy Bush]] set up a drum kit within the factory and recorded various [[Fill (music)|fills]], utilizing the acoustics of the dilapidated building. Forced to stop after local police officers responded to complaints about the noise, some of the percussion was later incorporated into "[[Temptation Waits]]", "[[I Think I'm Paranoid]]" and "Hammering in My Head".<ref name="KBmag">{{cite magazine |last=Rule |first=Greg |title=Case Study: The Making of ''Version 2.0'' |magazine=[[Keyboard (magazine)|Keyboard]] |date=August 1999 |issn=0730-0158}}</ref>

Garbage completed recording by December 1997, as Manson wanted to return to her family in Scotland for Christmas, and asked her bandmates to just move onto the mixing.<ref name="CMJ"/> Vig added that otherwise more time would be spent recording, and "it was kind of scary—because we had to commit to what these songs were going to become."<ref name="kerrang"/> Production was done until mid-February 1998.<ref name="mtv"/> The eventual title, ''Version 2.0'', was a tongue-in-cheek take on how computers were heavily involved in the album's production, with Manson adding that "in the studio, at any given moment, someone would come in and find the four of us in front of the screen."<ref name="program"/>