December 19, 2001 – Korn are putting the finishing touches on their new album with producer Michael Beinhorn at a Los Angeles recording studio. It will be their fifth effort and is due in Spring 2002.

Using the new Euphonix R1 Digital Hard Disk Recorder with a 96k, 24 BIT sampling rate -- twice the highest rate that's normally used for recording -- Korn and Beinhorn are able to create a rich sound that accentuates clarity as well as harmonics. The process -- steering clear of the limitations of analog and various other types of recording -- has only been used by classical and jazz artists in the past.

"With this system, we're able to gain something that no other rock recording in history has," says producer Beinhorn. "Rock music is very dense. Digital tends to make things sound very thin, antiseptic, crunchy and non-musical. We're able to capture the actual attack of the instruments -- the moment they're played -- on this album. Usually, the leading edge of the sound gets shaved.

"You can pick out and hear each individual instrument while everything's going on," says Beinhorn about the album's clarity. "Considering how dense the recording is -- how thick it is, how many instruments are playing any given time -- it's pretty remarkable." Beinhorn adds that the R1 Recorder is "sonically the best in the world. It's similar to pixels in a television. Greater resolution results in a nicer picture. The same is true for recording."