Universal Bass Drum Movement Compensator

Yes, on sale now at your favorite guitar center store, only $129.99!!!! The UBDMC-2000!! We got one, why don't you?

I'm back.

Whew! Loud weekend. Friday brought LBP with the new drummer Danny. He's good, I'll post something with him on it somewhere on the Internet soon. Were still without bandwidth, but I found a spot I can drive to and "borrow" it. Worked on some new stuff and some old stuff till the weeeeee hours of the morning.

Saturday Frantic Past dropped by and cut two songs for a soon to be released something or other called "Kombat Kontrol". You can find there page HERE. It's great stuff. You need to check them out! Were all still jammin on it here @ SBS. We hope they decide to stop by again!

Saturday evening, Danny came by and did some tracking for the ever-ongoing-soon-to-be-released widget called..something or other for Little Blue Pill.
It's going great, he's got some of the older tunes and working on replacing the parts from that other dead-beat drummer guy who used to play for them (me...I'm the guitar rock monster guy now.)

Sunday morning saw vocal tracking in the "great room". For our mystery guest. It's best to do that early before all the animals wake up.

Sunday afternoon was mix time for Frantic Past.

Sunday evening 7th Sun hung out and practiced and played and played and played and played and played.....till the inky blackness of the early morning.

Monday we took a break and packed the bus up and went to Richmond. Schedule updates later as we find out just what the hells going on this week.

The 'EPI Bass'' LIVES!

Yes, the EPI has been resurrected. After several hours of 'surgery' last night I think we brought the old girl back to life, and she's chompin at the ampeg to be played once again! Which I did, till 2am. Now she's resting comfortably till Sunday when 7th Sun comes over. This isn't the real 'EPI', just a represenative photo I 'googled'. The real 'EPI' dosen't have a phase switch like this one.

LBP came by Wednesday evening after Ron from 7th Sun did his practicing, and 2 new songs are now in the first stages of being songs, instead of random thoughts. Friday night more of the same, this time with a drummer!

Corporate T is playing a show at the "Grapevine" this evening. Good luck you guys!

That's it for now. I gotta go break up Mr. Hamster and Steve. {AGAIN}

Guitars, Kadielack's and......Mic Placement

Yes sir, I met a dude named Kadielack. The next creature I meet that needs a name gets that name.

Below is the mic placement technique I used to record CTS last night in studio.

Real full, no need to double track this way. I was happy anyway. Phase was not an issue, you'll see. The album (or CD for you kids out there) is coming along great. I'll put up a sample of the guitar sound tomorrow. My thinking was since this amp has one speaker, putting a mic on each side of the speaker should get a little variation of sound if I pan each mic hard left and right. Since the speaker moves in and out I was hopefull it wouldn't move the same on each side with every push. It seemed liked when he picked the strings the speaker moved a little different on each side. This created a very slight chours effect, but more like the parts are doubled, without all the hassell of getting the player to try and play the parts exact 2 times. When he corded the parts the speaker seemed to move the same and no chours effect.

At least that's how my ears heard it last night. Today who knows.....

That's it for now.

No on-ramp to superhighway, from SBS.

The protectors of our Internet gateway decided to fly away and as a result SBS has no connection to the outside world. I have been forced to drop our posts inside a bottle and send Steve to the river to let them (we hope) float to the right blog. If you are getting this post in error we sincerely apologize.
Band happening updates:
Little Blue Pill thinks they found a drummer. Should know more next Friday provided the ENTIRE band shows up…(hint, hint). Clayton is back on guitar (thank God!) This isn’t the LBP blog, so go there to find out. The link is here somewhere. LBP is following me. Or I’m following them……I’m not sure how that works..
7th Sun is still planning world domination, but they aren’t doing much about it right now. I’m told to be patient and just hang on, so I’m trying to do just that.
Misc. SOLO projects:
The 4th song in the series needs lyrics. It goes like: “ Da-de-de-dum-da-da-do-BLEH! “ If you can think of something catchy, give us a ring! I’m sure we can arrange a nice prize for your troubles. (or not) It’s gotta be cool, I just can’t think of anything cool right now.
Studio happenings:
CTS is due in Monday. Guitar parts. Again. More BIGGER BIGGER I want the guitar sound HUGE!!! I tried to get them to just use bigger guitars but that wasn’t the answer. They couldn’t reach the frets.
Tuesday: A lonely day of mixing in the mix room. Just me and the hamster powered mix machine.
Wednesday is 7th Sun drummer practice. Then work on Lottery for LBP. I FOUND the swishy guitar part I was looking for so I’m going to try and make that happen. It involves a donkey, a mouse, a rusty bucket, and some plastic shiny nickerboxers known only to SBS. It’s gonna be cool. Steve is tracking down the donkey as we speak. It’s the elusive musicall don-… oh never mind.
Thursday: Were going to Denny’s. OK were not really, but I can dream can’t I? Nothing so far.

Hampster 'fighting' mad.

Mr. Hampster pictured above was quoted as saying "I'm fighting mad over the lack of posts here at SBS." After punching Steve in the ear he said, "Now get to it!!" Punching Steve in the eye this time he said, "I fight all of you's lazy bit***s!!"

That's one angry rodent!! Too bad for Steve today is Friday.....and the phones are out, and it's not raining, and my car's stuck......and..........Good luck Steve.

New Stuff in a Huff.

It's 10:37pm..... Do you know where you are??? I'm here at the "Brilliante Moreno Soindo" as usual. I need to get out more I guess and see some of the sights I guess.

Update#1 SBS or for are spanish fans, BMS : The Little Blue Pill song An Answer has been remixed and it's mucho calliente!! . It will give you that warm and fuzzy feeling hopefully or not hopefully.

Update#2 Corperate T-Shirt's next song on there soon to be titled album "Perfect" was mixed today. We all here at SBS are humbly awaiting the guys input on the song. OK not Steve, but he's been drinking all afternoon so the dog farting sounds fantastic to him right now. I only threw away 10 CD's this time...I'm getting better I guess. I had this idea for swirling vocals around a center distorted vocal, and was asking Sister Mary Terri why nobody had done that before. She was right, stupid idea....

Update#3 Band night for the band 7th Sun has changed to band DAY! Sundays Noon-3:30 pm. Be there (if your in the band) or be square. Nothing on the recording front just yet. I'm trying to get Leroy out of the 80's still.

That's it for now, get off the computer and go outside! It's nice out!