Archive for April, 2008

Studio Diary – 4/27/08

April 28, 2008

Finished writing music & words for Hollow, In Vain.  Majority of the music tracks are completed.  Vocals, guitar and mixing will be completed on our week long recording venture the end of May.  The Izotope “Trash” plugin made some wicked distortion effects!  This will be a fun song to perform live.  Fans of “damaged” will [...]

Studio Diary – 04/19/08

April 20, 2008

“The State That We’re In”
Finished the majority of the bass lines in the verses & choruses.  (Both synth and bass gtr). There is now several tons of synth performances to sift through and determine what to use and what to cut.
“Within Your Eyes”
Music tracks have been updated and somewhat re-constructed.
“Hollow, In Vain” [working title]
New track [...]

studio diary 4-11-08

April 12, 2008

At the end of May, mend are scheduled for a week long trek to Sun Valley where we will be hard at work in a studio there.  We’re getting our “homework” done to make our time there as productive as possible.  We’re basically getting our “demo” versions of songs lined up so we can make them as [...]

photos posted

April 7, 2008

Added some photos to the visuals page.

studio diary 4/5/08

April 6, 2008

“the state that we’re in”
Spent some time working on the chorus, specifically the bass and guitar tracks.  Was shooting for a Peter Hook sound on the bass.  Plugging straignt into the board made it sound too pretty….like phil collins (aaahhhh!)  Then the effects made it sound too thin.  Mic’ing it up and running it through guitar rig [...]

Digital Distribution

April 3, 2008

We’ve setup accounts and uploaded “In Spite Of It All” to the following online retailers:
Amazon
iTunes
Napster
MusicNet
Rhapsody
eMusic
nimbit
Word is, that it can take anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple months  before our accounts are available, but they should be up and running by the time the new “CD” is mastered and ready for release.