Demo in work

Doing some critical listening today, We have 8 songs recorded for the EP I’ll whiddle that down to 5.

Demo is different than the 9 lives CD, 9 Lives is all originals using all the tools in my studio. Multi track overdub, I sing backup with myself, play ed multiple guitar parts, Brought in a few guest musicians adding drums, pedal steel and bass.

With Demo, We wanted to have a project that we could point to and say “This is what we sound like live” So with that thought in mind we decided that all the recordings on Demo would be one pass recordings. They are all 4 track recordings a vocal mic, and instrument mic for each of us and there was no comping (slicing , dicing and splicing) Also there will be covers, some of our favorite songs. I can’t wait to share it with everyone.

Recording in the cave tonight

Firing up Corona Studios tonight for some tracks to go on the Demo/Acoustic Bliss EP

Design our next CD cover and win a house show!

The Acousticats will play a house show for free for the person who comes up with the winning design for our upcoming CD “Demo”

• The CD: is an EP with live in studio recordings of the Acousticats and will be titled either “Demo” or “Acoustic Bliss”

• The contest:

Send digital copies to acousticats@gmail.com

Title either “Demo” or “Acoustic Bliss”

design should fit in 5″ X 5″

First 25 entrants get a free copy of the CD

Winner gets a free house show.(Sorry Boise Area Only)

Terrapin Station

Good times last night at the Terrapin station. Tim and me had a really good set and got some positive feedback and listened to some great music. Jonathan Warren was epic.

Mic Statistics

I Love that Word Press keeps track of your visitors for you, Gives a nice little graph on visitors per day. lets you know your top search keywords that lead people to your page. But I lately I am baffled at the top key words, I made a post back in May open-mic-night simple post like most here. But this one seems to have attracted a lot of attention.  With ” mic “  being the top search term every day since May.

Lord of the flies

Good time at Gellato’s last night,

I know I always say we had a good time. We always do when we are playing live.  Friends dropped in to see us,  Everyone was in a great mood. Tim and me enjoyed ourselves. There was one thing however, or should I say several hundred very small things. Flies, OMG Flies. Big problem when you are playing guitar,  both hands are busy and you can’t swat them away. I am itching just thinking about them.

That said, we had a great time last night. LOL

Curb Cup Boise

Had a great time yesterday. Thank you to all our friends that showed up to say hi.

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No rest for the wicked.

9 Lives is done. We have a box of crisp shrink-wrapped CDs in jewel cases.

But Wait there’s more!

Last night Tim and I started working on an EP

This one will have  5 songs some will be covers.  It’s called Acoustic Bliss and will be recorded live in studio. We will use it as a demo for venue owners an as an added merch offering.

The recording concept for this ep is simple. we are playing live all tracks at once into the DAW and adding minimal post processing to tracks. reverb,EQ, and Volume mixing.

Last night Tim and I laid down tracks for 5 songs

• Long ride home
• Satisfied mind
• All apologies
• A new song “Grey skies”
• one more that escapes me at the moment

We will mix these over the next week and record a few more next week. then pick 5 for the EP.

CD MASTERED!

This week was frought with technical glitches. …literaly… glitches in the sound files that make up the last tracks on the last 2 songs on the CD But our computer systems decided to cooperate one more time just long enough to finish mixing and mastering “Time passes” and “Steal My Breath” I have in my hot little hands what I think is an audio master of the new CD 9 Lives. And it sounds great! a real accomplishment in music and engineering. It’s hard to believe this CD came out of Corona Studios.

The artwork is done. it’s pretty simple and ready to go to print. Monday I will call Goldlink Media and arange to drop off the artwork and master. For the initial run.

Tim and I have been working on this CD for almost a year now. it’s a collection of 10 original tunes and I hope there is something in there for everyone who hears it.

We can’t wait to share this with you