Dormition's Journal
November 10, 2009
The following are excerpts from older entries that were accidently deleted. They recall the events that took place from when our band Thracian started to record our demo. From it's inevitable demise to it's glorious rise from ruin, it's all here...
Dormition's Journal. January 14, 2009.
Well it's official, our band Thracian has finally started recording a demo. It took us a while to get the time to record, we tried doing it ourselves, but it ended up not working out as well as we planned. So we looked around the Long Island/NY area to see what was available and affordable. We were lucky enough to meet a guy by the name of Justin Donavan, who records music and does a damn good job of it. After hearing how awesome one of our songs came out, and the fact it wasn't even mastered yet, we have great expectations for our demo and can't wait to get it out to the public and the fans.
Seems like we're going to have a demo worthy of the name Thracian... so we all thought. A few months went by before I made another journal entry, but this explains pretty much what went on for those months.
Dormition's Journal. June 12, 2009.
Nothing but constant stand stills when it comes to our demo being completed. Back and forth disputes between band members and audio engineers on what the best move to make is... we still don't know. We meet with the audio engineer to discuss what the fate of our demo is. After hearing a rough mix of one of our songs, we weren't going to take any more chances. So we meet up with the engineer and proceeded to go over the songs with a fine toothed comb to make sure everything sounded on point and lined up correctly. We now wait for the results. According to the engineer, we should have our demo by the end of June... but I'll go with an early July release. You can't imagine the stress, aggravation and how disheartened we have gotten over the months not only recording this demo, but waiting to hear it.
Dormition's Journal. May 13, 2009.
I mentioned in my last post, that our band Thracian started recording our demo. Recording is finished and we're just waiting for it to be mixed/mastered. We've been waiting for this demo to get finished, but it seems the more we get amped for it to be released, the longer it takes to actually get finished. The recording process alone took over 3 months, which seems to be a bit long for a 6 song demo, I could be wrong though. We finished recording near the end of April and hoped to have heard at least a few songs fully mixed by the middle of May. As of now, it's the middle of May and all that we have heard, has been one song and it sounded very lackluster.
I'm no audio engineer or recording specialist, but I would think someone who is, would showcase something of better quality than what we were subjected to. At this point, it seems that our demo is no way near completion, and we're begining to lose our patience.
Dormition's Journal. July 16, 2009.
Demo is still not finished. After getting our hopes of actually hearing the final mix, we get a call from our audio engineer that his computer's power supply is no longer functioning. Figures... a few mere hours before we were supposed to go there. The funny thing is, he still asked to be paid in full. I guess I should mention that he handed our rough tracks to another guy to finish the mixing, so he isn't even handling our music anymore. It never ends. As of now, we are scheduled to go in next Wednesday to hear what is hopefully the final mix. We shall see.
Dormition's Journal. September 9, 2009.
Stagnant. After all the annoyances and cancelled sessions that our band has endured over the past 9 months (I know, seems a tad ridiculous to record a demo for this long) we have finally come to a resolution... well sort of. Our demo is not finished, and to be blunt, it never will be. The audio engineer (if he even deserves that title), has once again thrown us to the wolves. What should have only taken a few months to record, mix & master, has taken entirely to long and with no results, other than constant let downs and excuses that seem to outdo each other as they happen. I don't know what we did to deserve this kind of treatment, but no band should have to put up with what we did. Now I know that we as a band, take some blame, as this was our first time recording, and we didn't fully realize all that could come of it. But our first impression was one of hope, now that hope has withered and decayed. We haven't let this go without a fight, so expect some more info on this as it progresses.
I guess the calm of this storm, is the fact that we will be changing venues and recording at Full Force Studios in late October. Our demo, which is entitled "Blight", should finally see the light of day in early November. The demo will now only be 4 songs, consisting of "The Sullen Heart", "Conflagration", "Ghost of Her" and "Blight". This demo promises to be epic.
So after almost a year of bullshit, we will have our demo finalized in the upcoming week or so. Full Force has been nothing but amazing. We had three full days to record, which compared to that other shit hole of a studio, was great. We took the wrong path when we started this process, I'm sure we're not the only band to fall victim to shit like this, but it still hurts to know how much time and money we wasted. And speaking of money, we will be heading to small claims court in February in hopes of getting our money back from that studio after they fucked us over. It never ends. But on the bright side, we're heading to the studio tonight to make any last changes to our tracks and then it's time for the demo to get mixed and mastered. So expect a release soon... very soon.
Until next time...
No comments:
Post a Comment