Editing These Days (Bon Jovi album) (section)

== Recording and production ==
Jon Bon Jovi hired [[Peter Collins (record producer)|Peter Collins]] to produce the album, based on his prior work with several acts such as [[Rush (band)|Rush]], [[Queensrÿche]] and [[Alice Cooper]]. Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were co-producers of the album. They made a start recording the album in [[Nashville]] in the fall of 1994. After a week to ten days of recording, during October 1994, Jon Bon Jovi erased it all. Recording continued over the next four months and it shifted between Jon Bon Jovi's home studio Sanctuary I in Woodstock, NY, and three separate studios in [[Los Angeles]]: One On One Studios, Ocean Way Recording, and A&M Studios. There were various reasons why so many different studios were used.

One reason for studio changes, while recording in Woodstock, NY, was industrial metal band [[Fear Factory]] were recording their album [[Demanufacture (Fear Factory album)|''Demanufacture'']] in a neighboring studio.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/rise-of-the-machine-the-untold-story-of-fear-factory-s-demanufacture|title=Fear Factory's Demanufacture: the future-metal classic that rewired the 90s|publisher=Louder Sound|access-date=January 18, 2020|archive-date=June 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629084051/https://www.loudersound.com/features/rise-of-the-machine-the-untold-story-of-fear-factory-s-demanufacture|url-status=dead|author-last1=Lawson|author-first1=Dom|date=10 November 2015}}</ref>  Bon Jovi's engineers repeatedly complained about the volume Fear Factory were recording at as it was bleeding into their drum mics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metalunderground.com/interviews/details.cfm?newsid=122700|title=Dino Of Fear Factory Reconstructs Demanufacture|publisher=Metalunderground.com}}</ref>

Regardless, all the basic tracks except for "Diamond Ring" and "(It's Hard) Letting You Go" were recorded in Woodstock, NY. All the rhythm guitar parts were recorded in Los Angeles and all the keyboards were recorded in New Jersey. Most vocals were done in New Jersey. Very little was done in Nashville: one vocal and one or two keyboard parts. "Diamond Ring" and "(It's Hard) Letting You Go" were recut in Los Angeles. The album was mixed by Bob Clearmountain in Los Angeles.

Then the band embarked on a mini Christmas tour of clubs in December 1994 and they continued to promote Cross Road. On December 17, 1994, Richie Sambora married [[Heather Locklear]].