Mark Opitz, who was behind the production of the band's third studio album, "Shabooh Shoobah", ten years earlier. For this album, INXS focused on shifting their musical direction by incorporating a much more "rawer" sound. To achieve this, a variety of techniques were used during production, such as stripping down the polished sound that was present on their previous albums with Thomas. Heavy distortion was used on the guitars. Opitz and Hutchence also used heavy distortion on the vocals, an experience that Hutchence enjoyed. In a 1992 radio interview promoting the release of "Welcome to Wherever You Are", guitarist Tim Farriss recalls the same technique used in producing music in the 1960s – "Sometimes they used to mix the vocal back so the band would sound louder, punchier and harder".