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Help some rad studios out after being wiped out by Hurricane Sandy

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 05:23:00 +0000

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A word from the owners:

This year a group of us put together all our resources, quit our jobs and built two beautiful recording studios and 13 practice spaces. We believe in DIY so we planned and we built. We were up early, we were up late, we hung up drywall, endlessly, building. The toll it took on our bodies and lives was high, but in the end it was worth it. We had two studios built and working non-stop in tandem with other friends who wanted to Do It Themselves. We had 13 practice rooms that we made sure were nice, really nice, so people could create in an environment unlike any practice space any of us had ever been in. Everyone helped that occupied a space, and honestly... it was amazing. It was a massive space, 7000 Square Feet and Hurricane Sandy destroyed every inch of it. Walls were knocked over, doors snapped in half and all the gear in the entire building, erased and covered in a toxic sludge from the Gowanus Canal. But it was the people that made it amazing, not the walls or the gear and that is the reason I won't let this go. My friends, who I built this building with are too impressive for me to just let this go. We are going to make something else. I insist. I don't know what yet exactly, but it starts with first fulfilling our obligations to each other and everyone else who helped us build. So... for the first time in my life I am asking for help in the form of money. Please donate what you can to help us back on our feet, then I can assure you... we will do the rest.
Mike Law on behalf of John, Andrew, Paul, Andrew II, Jeremy and Dennis.

New Upgrades for the Summer

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 06:56:00 +0000

We installed a vintage Neve 8038 a few weeks ago. It took only 7 days to fully wire and install the board. It was pretty insane, the console is 10.5ft wide and the frame is one piece. It took about 8 people, a giant forklift and a few hydralic jacks to get the console up 18ft in the air to the control room floor and over the railing. We also added a ton of outboard gear, mics and vintage amps. Go see our updated Gear List for more information.

seahorsesoundstudios.com/gear.html

Here are some pictures:

I had been swamped with mixing work and had just finished an album on this same Neve in Malibu a week prior.

I laughed hysterically as soon as I finished the wiring and tested everything. It all worked.... despite me being out of my mind exhausted during the install. The very next day after the install and wiring was finished, the studio got booked for 3 weeks. Close call, but everything went beyond smooth.

So far the board is loving the new control room and the monitoring has improved quite a bit. Also, oddly enough the control room now feels bigger and more spacious with the new desk.

I am going to miss my old console, even though I not going to sell it. I plan on using for a "studio B" at a later time. Luckily the week prior I had 2 great bands from Italy come to mix and even had a great LA rock band come track a full analog session on the 1" 16 track. I took my computer out of the studio for an entire week and it was great.

Pata and Samuel listening while I prep the tape machine for printing.

Pata and Samuel from Italy

Tape Machine is working hard this week.

Found a great vocal mic combo, I have been using a lot lately. Sounded great for this session. Later I ran the vocals thru the AKG bx20 spring reverb and emt plate for a huge vocal sound.

Here is an old Electro-Voice 635a and a Mojave Ma-301, straight from the board into the ATR in the background.

Check out Mojave's site for more info on the Ma-300. It is a killer mic!

Mojave Audio

Some new photos

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:14:00 +0000

running around seahorse sound

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:57:00 +0000

conscious summary: Show this Monday the 18th

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:28:00 +0000

conscious summary: Show this Monday the 18th: "Next Monday the 18th… Handbag Factory’s first show. the Handbag Factory is located on the 3rd floor of the new Seahorse Sound Stu..."

(the) HANDBAG FACTORY's first show - April 18th

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:16:00 +0000

Next Monday the 18th… Handbag Factory’s first show. This one is going to rad and casual, and rad.

the Handbag Factory is located on the 3rd floor of the new Seahorse Sound Studios in downtown Los Angeles.

> We have some amazing folks playing that night, from an all female a capella group to harsh and sweet noise and ambient wizards from all over california.

Special guest: Pete von Petrin from SF.

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sounds from lost angeles with special guests:
Pete von Petrin (SF), Fishwives, Ezra Buchla, Actuary, Emily Lacy, Pete von Petrin, and Conscious Summary

art on display from:

Ben Mook (photo) Dustin Johnson (photo) Amanda Frances Movlai (photo) Andrea Arriola (paint)

| 1334 S. Grand Ave, Los Angeles 90015 | 8pm | $5 suggested donation |

New Audio Blog! Video Contest! New Studio Update!

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:41:00 +0000

Look out!

Introducing, the all-new-super cool- SEA-CAST, a neat weekly audio cast featuring odd and rare recordings from the Seahorse Sound archives.

This will be a neat new way to share music and sound. Look for new posts each week, and remember to click "Subscribe" or "Follow".

Click HERE to visit our audio blog on TUMBLR

Feel free to share some of your own music and we will put it up eventually when the time is right. Send submissions to info@seahorsesoundstudios.com

Just posted SEA-CAST #2 featuring LA's own Crooked Cowboy and the Freshwater Indians

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It has been pretty insane here lately... 22 hour work days in order to meet deadlines and finish construction in a timely matter. 14 hours of recording and another 8 of construction. Neato.

Just finished is the new BEDLAM OF CACOPHONY album, "Neuroleptic". Power Grind and Super Tech, these guys are face-melting badasses with a lethal new album. Check out our blog archives for more info on the recording of the album.

Also wrapped in time for the release is the highly absurd, highly anticipated, EDSEL PRESLY album "duartesucksdotcom".

This is going to be one of my favorite productions for a long time. It is odd, honest, odd, absurd and odd again. The only way i can really describe the music is deranged blues with honest free jazz sections and absurd folk like lyrics with vocals from a mad scientist hash maker from Kentucky.

If you were locked in a room with music on repeat, most of the time you will go insane. This music on the other hand will have you waltzing on water with an imaginary dance partner.

Get weird with Edsel Presley.

Here are some pictures from our new studio build in Los Angeles, California. The studio is coming along nicely and we could not be more thrilled or tired.

Here, I scored some compressed fiberglass (roxul) on Craigslist from the Compressed Fiberglass Angel. You know who you are, you special man you. This is basically a pile of gold to me. I love you.

CF is by far the most effective and efficient acoustic control material, it has a high density and works well at most frequencies. Even down to the lower bass frequencies, where most rooms suffer from the worst acoustical problems. Muddy mixes happen because of this. At 1 inch thick, it is still more effective then that nasty acoustic foam you see in a lot studios, it also doesn't look like you put a dirty sponge on your wall. You can also stack it for more lower frequency control.

Here you see the first panel installed on the ceiling of the control room, this stuff gets pretty heavy when your holding it overhead at 6am with no sleep and too much power tools.

This will be the ceiling "cloud". Staggered layers of CF from 1"-3" thick with air gaps in between the surfaces. This will create a much more balanced room from the get go, and also "acoustically" raises my ceiling height. If a low ceiling in a control room goes untreated you can get some really nasty comb filtering, which btw is not a way to cleanse water with a hair accessory. It's a really bad side effect of unhappy frequency response.

Finished! Left some room for future track lighting/disco ball (not)

This will be the fabric covering the CF. You can't really tell from the picture, but the material is beautiful and fancy, i also want to thank the Guardian Fabric Angel in the fashion district.

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There is a neat lil video experiment for a upcoming Conscious Summary piece called

"Prescription: Lullaby"

The song will be featured on a upcoming 7" vinyl release with mastering done by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, The Strokes) and the amazing surrealist artist Rob Sato doing a custom peice.

CS is offering a guide track and a bunch of random video clips in a .zip file to download. Listen to the song and assemble the clips to make video. There are no rules or directions, you can use as much or as little of the given footage as possible. The most creative video will be chosen and the author will be given a free copy of the 7" and other goodies.

Download the package here. Deadline is May 15th.

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That is it for now, check back later! Don't forget to hit "Follow" or subscribe to our blog.

Happy Listening!

ends and beginnings -February blog

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:22:00 +0000

Wow. 2011 is pretty gnarly so far. Countless things are disassembling/self destructing themselves into the aether. Meanwhile, many beautiful spores of new growth are emerging and voiding the null in between seamlessly.

What?

...maybe look at some pictures instead.

The Strokes' new album is all wrapped up and I just got word the mastering is finished too. We started mixing at the House of Blues Studios at the end of November. The songs are great and sonically it is nice and dirty like the first album. Here (above) is Nick(guitar) and Fabrizio(drums) overdubbing some last minute handclaps. This happens a lot believe it or not.

Noah Georgeson(producer), me, and Fabsy listening to the first "single" to make sure it sounds like a single. Fabs is not single btw, sorry ladies...

making chords out of sense, or was it the other way around?

I really like working at the House of Blues Studios when i'm away from Seahorse. The vibe is rad and it feels like your on an island. Fabrizio in deep listening mode, and playing around on guitar. He writes a lot of great melodies, and he is mainly a drummer. hmmm.....

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This years NAMM was actually pretty tolerable. Here is the usual setup, microphones are up for listening/testing and I have my mobile Pro Tools rig setup with some sessions and tracks I recorded at Seahorse with Mojave Microphones.

Mr. David Royer, microphone genius, looking very handsome.

Dusty Wakeman and his famous 3 string bass

This was great. There was a protest outside of NAMM. Apparently Fender has some naughty overseas labor habits... You have to be a total badass to fly to another country so you can piss on your horrible employers party!

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Some big news is Seahorse Sound is moving to Los Angeles. The new building is very inspiring and BIG! The drum room has 23 foot ceilings, and it's inside of an old 3 story warehouse right in downtown. So far its has been a tremendous amount of work moving an entire studio, building a new one, and trying to finish up various albums at the same time. I really can't think of anything else I would rather be doing. Well actually....

Here is a portion of what will be the main tracking space: super high ceilings and a very controlled but live room. The natural reverb time is almost perfect without any acoustic treatment. Very excited to record drums in here.

lots of brick, wood and irregular surfaces

Here is the future control room. It is on the 2nd story and looks down into the main recording space. The natural acoustics are great, but I expect it to be pretty phenomenal once properly treated. I am measuring the frequency response as I add more gear/furniture/treatment to make sure I have a accurate listening environment.

Control Room windows before/after

two more to go!

3rd floor

The third floor is going to be great for concerts/performances and as an art gallery. We already have a few amazing shows lined up. Given the recent closings of some favorite LA music spots, hopefully the new space can help fill some gaps.

More to come as it comes...

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Film maker Amanda Frances Movlai held a screening at the Echo Park Film center to showcase her amazing short films. The nite was a blast, and i was happy to be part of a circle of great musicians scoring the films live.

Here is a video she did for noisey folk band Conscious Summary

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Ah, the end part...It was hard not to be too sentimental about this weekend. It marked the final session at Seahorse Sound in San Bernardino, and the last tracking session with Condemned. After almost 4 years of recording in one space I must move on to greener pastures. Actually, im so excited for the new studio i dont have the time to miss the old one.

Condemned did a great job finishing bass tracks and touching up some vocals. Some guest vocalists were brought in, no other than Obie Flett from INHERIT DISEASE, and Matty Way of DISGORGE.

Between Obie, Matty, and Angel, i heard some of the most disgusting vocals on the planet. too cool.

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Here are a couple random shots of some art a few clients like to have around when tracking. Good to have some variety sometimes.

yes sir.

i like this one of the couple stargazing. that's love if i you ask me.

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While I have your attention, I want to remind you about two important things right now...

KUSF is an amazing free form radio station that has been playing every imaginable style of music sound works for 30 years now. They are being taken off the air and need your help. We can keep this station on the air with just a bit of unity and attention. Here is the website for more info: KUSF

Speaking of unity, it is amazing how many folks could care less about what's happening in Egypt, or haven't even heard the news. Check out the web for some really inspiring videos and stories.

Life is good and so is change.

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Help Save KUSF!!!

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:23:00 +0000

A great volunteer based freeform radio station is struggling to stay on the air. Radio is still a viable format for people to hear new music in exciting ways. We spend alot of time and technology on music playback systems and sharing music, why not expand on a great technology that already exists. KUSF has been doing great for around 30 years or so, please sign this petition and help keep good sounds floating around.

click here to sign the free petition, takes seconds!

November Studio Blog

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:35:00 +0000

Every year in November the AES convention alternates between coasts to host the show. This year was the 129th Audio Engineering Society Convention in San Francisco.

Must have been the year end hustle, but this month was crazy busy. The week before leaving I had constant recording and mixing sessions at both studios right up until the minute I left. I was actually worried I might not make the trip.
Luckily my session at House of Blues Studios in Encino finished on time. I drove an hour east to Seahorse, packed my gear, said goodbye to Comet and Walter and drove to meet Dusty from Mojave Audio in Burbank. Its funny how driving seems much faster when making the trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco. It is also a good buffer to wind down between cities.

I find much of the time that recording audio is on the better side of synchronicity.

I saw this at a truck stop on the way. Thanks Chatter Telephone, I would have never remembered you.

We got to SF around 7pm and drove immediately to the Moscone Convention Center to sign in. The convention center was already a mad house. Actually, it's pretty entertaining to watch all the major pro audio companies in a pile of gear and cable trying to set up while jet lagged.

I ran out of there as soon as I could over a few blocks to my hotel room. Thinking I was incredibly late, I rushed and packed my equipment to play the first show of the trip. I was pretty stoked to find out the venue was only 2 blocks from my hotel on Market Street. Cool.

the luggage store gallery

I did mostly drone sets, using 3 sound sources:

1) pencil sharpener
2) broken slide projector
3) modified record player w/ fork and metal disc

Thanks to Rent Romus, the other performers, and the audience for the kind words and hospitality. It's a really great sounding space and you should check it out if your stuck on Market street. They have something going on most nights.

The next day was the opening of the convention...

I have never been to one, but i always likened the AES convention to a similarly geeky convention...

This is a picture of a Star Trek Convention.... not too much different right?

I headed over to the Mojave Audio booth. Mojave Audio makes really wicked tube mics, all designed by microphone genius David Royer. I do a fair bit of beta testing and application reviews for new Mojave models, and since they sound awesome it's always a pleasure.

I spent the day answering questions about the microphones and sharing some of sound recordings and mixes that I used the mics on. Everyone really dug the sounds, but honestly those mics make it easy. Check them out, they aren't too expensive either considering how they sound.

That night I had a fun time over at KUSF 90.3fm with Dj Cactus, who is a total badass and just a nice dude. I did a short live set and talked a bit about few recordings coming out soon. Cactus also played some selections that highlight the field recordings, compositions and improvised ensemble work i've done this year with Conscious Summary. Thanks to Dj Cactus and Momo for being rad 24 hours a day.

setup for the radio show on Defeat Sleep

The last day of AES was a blast, which ended with some super spicy indian food and a rad show

in Oakland with my friends from Nerfbau. Check them out and what they have going on up there.

I felt really luck to see alot of missed friends up there. Also want to wish Lee Tusman well on his vision quest and thank him for the good company. He has a neat label (Jewish Noise) and is putting out a 7" comp featuring a Conscious Summary track.

oakland. november 2010.

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The next day I drove back in time to prepare for DYSTROPHIC's cd release show with Murder Construct. The band got together and spent the night cutting, burning, stamping and assembling for the first run of our EP. Death Metal Martha Stewarts we are. Maybe less sweaty.

Here are a few random session pictures from this month at Seahorse Sound and House of Blues Studios in North Hollywood.

Angel and Steve from Condemned -listening to some tracks before they leave for their tour in Switzerland.

Kim and Rob from Her Majesty and the Whale, a side project of the Pussycat Dolls.

Writing a new single

Nick from The Strokes laying down some percussion during a mix session at the HOB.

camera war with PAC DIV @ Paramount Studios, Hollywood

fun tracking session with Kirk Whalum (Whitney Houston, Bodyguard sax solo, Boyz in the Hood)

and Rob Chiarelli for artist Keiko Matsui. Hidden in the back is Derek Nakamoto, a killer string arranger and producer. @ HOB

keeping it simple for Gucci Mane @ Serenity Sound in Hollywood.

Years almost over, make it good!

Now in the Studio: CONDEMNED!!!

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:14:00 +0000

CONDEMNED (Unique Leader) have entered the studio and are currently in the process of recording the much anticipated debut "REALMS OF THE UNGODLY" . These guys have a great following in Europe and the UK and this album wont disappoint. Even while still in pre-production these songs were already brutal as hell. Gonna be heavy!! I'll post more details as they progress.

Here is the press release:

At long last! We bring to you the face of the new Condemned album. Along with an all new updated layout! Here is the official statement posted on the Unique Leader Web..

Condemned is pleased to finally unveil the next chapter of their second full length album "Realms of the Ungodly". With the offerings they bring to you from the demiurgic artist "Jon Zig". They release his unholy creation for the face of the new album. With guest vocals by AJ Magana / Matti Way (ex. disgorge) and Obie Flett (Inherit Disease).In late June, they start recording the album at Seahorse Sound, and is then to be mastered by Alan Douches of West West Side Music. Who's collaborated w/ well known artists such as (Nile, Mastodon, Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan & more). Condemned will announce a release date and new song when samples are ready.

Bedlam Of Cacophony-Neuroleptic coming soon!

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:05:00 +0000

Just a few days ago i received the test masters back from Scott Hull and they sound amazing! I'll post more details when the album is released, but it sounds killer so far and i'm pretty excited for this release, its utterly insane.

The album features guest vocals by Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapitation, Murder Construct), Big Chocolate (The Faceless), Ramon Mercado (Pencil Lead Syringe) and myself on vocals and sound design. I made a few instruments/sound generators especially for this album to achieve the sound we had imagined.

Here is a "studio diary" they made while tracking:

Actually, while your at it watch Inherit Disease's too:

Me and Lee took a lil road trip down to San Diego to record Travis Ryan at his place. I put together a mobile rig of my usual vocal chain. I found out what mic Travis liked: a Shure Sm-7 and brought my usual standbys: a Neve type mic pre (in this case a Vintech 1272 clone), Distressor, and a headphone amp.

First we had to get tacos.

That's it for now, stay tuned for BEDLAM OF CACOPHONY's "Neuroleptic" debut album soon.

LANTVRN . Not Enough Light EP

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:18:00 +0000

LANTVRN plays super dark, sludged-out psychedelic rock thats heavily black metal inspired. Sound neat? Its badass. These sessions are a bit hazy for me, but im pretty sure we all had fun. Ahhhh, rock n roll. The band tracked all the basics live and did most the songs in one or a few takes. Even the lead vocal that made it on the album was the original live one. It was really heartfelt and powerful and could not be replaced. Fuck yea. Thats how its supposed to go.

Now in the hands of producer Bron Tieman (CROOKED COWBOY and THE FRESHWATER INDIANS) - The rest was a whirlwind of overdubs and running effects thru pedals, amps and whatever we could fuck up sounds with. I remember running around like a mad man re-amping things, printing time based effects, mixing and sub-mixing tracks while the band worked out ideas in the next room or took a break. There was alot of creative energy in the air, so i made sure the tracking rooms were always ready to go. This album was originally supposed to be done on a 1" 16 track Tascam machine that Bron rescued from abandon. Poor dude spent an entire day driving up and down California to get the machine in time for the session. When I inspected and cleaned the tape machine, I found out that the capstan was really funky and the whole motor assembly needed major work. So we ended up doing everything in Pro-Tools but had an extremely analog workflow, if you will. At the end of the day Pro-Tools and magnetic tape are just the medium to capture the recording. Having a calculated work flow with minimal distractions and committing to ideas is usually the easiest way to capture the music and vibe, which is the important part, i think ha! Bron sorta has a saying thats pretty fun; when everyone agrees on something, such as a take being good etc, he will say "Stamp It!" Meaning its good, and lets move on. Bron has a great way of working with bands. He keeps their spirits high and manages to trim away all the fat, leaving only the good stuff and usually adding on some needed extra spice. In the end, I am glad we used Pro-Tools. Our track count was around 49 by the time I mixed, and the automation was just insane.

Another badass thing is synth wizard Neil Schuh (Crooked Cowboy, Jeffertittti's Nile, Dazzler) played some wicked synths and keyboard tracks back at his apartment (which i like to call Neil's Emporium of Awesome Shit) and sent them back them over the web. Meanwhile at the studio, I set Cameron up with his vocal track and a vintage Yamaha 1010 delay straight into the console to play with his vocal, riding the delay in and out and oscillating the feedback. Cameron also added a couple layers of sound through various pedals and effects. When I threw all the tracks together and smoothed out all the transitions and dynamics, the songs got sent into another dimension.

I really like the drum sound i got on "Sleeper/Awaken". 98% of the drum sound is coming from that mic in front of the kick drum about knee high, a Mojave MA-201fet thru a Distressor set to "fucked up". You can really hear the live room complimenting the groove on the second half of the song.

In another iso room was a sweet snake-skin Selmer amp (woo! tongue twister!), I threw on a prototype Ma-101fet and a Royer 121 for good measure. The Ma-101fet gave me a little clarity and bite while the 121 gave me a lot of girth, so i didn't really use any eq except for some filters on the low end. Oh, this is kind of interesting, Bron requested to have the guitar thinned out to match some surf records he really digs. It was a great sound but i was worried that if i committed to such a drastic eq, i might be screwed later when mixing. I quickly remembered what the sound was like when i was testing phase between the mics, so i flipped the polarity on one of the mics, and presto! there was Bron's sound. Now if we wanted a thicker sound in the guitar later during mixing, all i had to do was flip it back...which i think we ended up doing!

Here is a funny clip of me walking around wondering what room i should use for the next overdub session, you can kind of hear me mumble "i gotta clear this shit out.." Ha!!

LANTVRN's ep was just released and featured in Amoeba Hollywood's Pick of the month. Check it out here

There is a limited edition cassette version available here.

A neat video for one of the songs:

Cryptic Gallbladder Splatter-groove, grindcore and gore, what else starts with a "G"? Oh yea, Great!

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:22:00 +0000

Recently finished Cryptic Gallbladder Splatter's latest album: "Giving Gore Grind its Groove Back". CGS is from Orange County and has been together for almost 8 years. With super catchy songs, members with classical training and one of the gnarliest vocalists in California, their latest is really killer... and pretty disturbing, check out some of their song titles!

I first thing I noticed about the band was alot of the quick, seemingly random changes into odd meters and very different genres of music. My first intuition was NO triggers and lots of dynamics (yes, even for a grind album). Luckily the band was very rehearsed and knew what they wanted, which left time for experimenting with sounds and making jokes.

Around the time of this album i was really getting sick of endless editing and triggering samples. Luckily the jazzy tunes allowed me to make an organic sounding album that still crushes your head in. We mixed the songs over the course of a couple weeks and then sent the master to Scott Hull where he did his mastering job at his own Visceral Sound. The albums sounds killer, check them out.

Cryptic Gallbladder Splatter

wrapping up DYSTROPHIC's new ep

noreply@blogger.com (seahorse sound studios) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:49:00 +0000

after one long year, Dystrophic's ep is now done. im printing the final mixes now, and will send them over Scott Hull (pig destroyer, agoraphobic noisebleed, anal cunt, relapse records, etc).

what a long process, a fricken year and its only a demo..it took a year mostly because this band has been put on hold so many times due to the studio being busy. literally every time i did an album the band would be on hold for months-with only tiny amounts of spare time to work on it, also being so spread out never really helps, long gone are the days when you get to make music with all friends who live in the same neighborhood. to top it off we were still writing as we were recording, working out parts and months later changing them again. sound familiar anyone?

of course after hearing sounds for over a year, i grew to hate the sound of the whole thing and even hired another mixer to give a try while i mixed the Bedlam of Cacophony record, nope. This recording refused to stop pissing me off. if i could count the times i tryed to talk the band into re-recording everything... hey whats wrong with 6 months of pre-production?!

while definitely not being the most sonically impressive recording ive done, the results are still pretty crushing. some really intense and catchy parts, and some really gnarly vocals that get me a little excited... excited to get on and move forward. woo! to say the least... here is the press release:

Dystrophic's debut EP is a cosmically violent formation of ultra brutal technical death/grind and mind melting noise compositions played at light speed. Featuring members scattered across Southern California, an area rich in up and coming death metal, Dystrophic delivers utter violent intensity skillfully controlled into a conceptual offering no less bizarre than existence itself.

Laced with a complete barrage of noise and no bullshit groove-grind sections, this mixture of insanity and catchy intensity will surely not leave your stereo for quite some time!

Lyrically and musically a conceptual project with a nod to the outer realms of the massive unknown universe, inadequacy of humans, and the bizarre order of space-time, consider it a vessel to a great forthcoming

Check out DYSTROPHIC: myspace, facebook, youtube

As i mentioned earlier, Scott Hull has been great to work with lately, i highly recommend him as a mastering engineer. He recently mastered my work on the BEDLAM OF CACOPHONY upcoming album "Neuroleptic" and CRYPTIC GALLBLADDER SPLATTER's debut album "Giving Gore-Grind its Groove Back" which it certainly does.