Editing This Year's Model (section)

===Mixing===
The album was [[Audio mixing|mixed]] at Eden by Béchirian with Lowe and Costello in attendance;<ref name="SchultzMix">{{cite journal |last=Schultz |first=Barbara |title=Classic tracks: Elvis Costello and the Attractions' 'Pump It Up' |journal=[[Mix (magazine)|Mix]] |date=January 2007 |issue=31 |pages=140–141 |url=https://www.mixonline.com/recording/projects/audio_elvis_costello_attractions/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530062314/https://www.mixonline.com/recording/projects/audio_elvis_costello_attractions/ |archive-date=30 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Costello did not contribute due to his relative inexperience in the studio.{{efn|Costello asserted himself more on the mixing of ''Armed Forces''.{{sfn|Thomson|2004|loc=chap. 5}}}}{{sfn|Thomson|2004|loc=chap. 4}} The mixing console had been custom-built by Béchirian in the early 1970s after the studio had changed locations.<ref name="SchultzMix" /> According to the author Mick St. Michael, Lowe intentionally made the record louder than its predecessor.{{sfn|St. Michael|1986|loc=chap. 3}} Béchirian recalled in an interview with ''[[Mix (magazine)|Mix]]'' magazine that Lowe's primary goal was to "make sure the bass sat in well with the kick" and to bring Costello's voice to the forefront.<ref name="SchultzMix" /> With the record completed, Costello and the Attractions toured America in January 1978.{{sfn|Thomson|2004|loc=chap. 4}}{{sfn|Clayton-Lea|1999|loc=chap. 2}}