Just wanted say hello and wish you all a safe and cheerful Christmas and New Year! I hope 2008 brings you all success and wisdom in your art and personnel endeavors.
Of course the studio is busy through the holiday season- more surround sound mixing and some basic band tracking through January. February will be exciting with two Tank releases coming out- The Senate’s live DVD and Kay Kay’s full length album.
Best wishes to all!!!!
Tom
The last two weeks have been spent touching up mixes for a release on vinyl for the long awaited Kay Kay record- I CAN SAY RECORD- this sucker is going to be great. A great record. We are on the last lap- I am stoked.
TP
I have been mixing a new live surround video DVD for local seattle acoustic power rock trio “The Senate”. A recent show was recorded at a Seattle venue “Cafe Solstice”. We are turning the corner on the stereo mixes-then off to surround land! Also in the works is a full length CD (both disc’s packaged together) for the Senate. The 2 disc product will be released by March.
Over the past couple of weeks the studio has been up to lots of good- The Tank was proud to host three members of Seattle’s acoustic guitar ten piece orchestra “Tuning the Air”, the guys were in tracking a full length album with engineer/producer Andy Boyd. Awesome stuff.
Also this last week final touches of mixing and mastering were completed on an EP to be released by “Wild Orchid Children”. The CD will be released on the bands own label.
This week I completed a 70 minute live remote multitrack for Equal Vision recording artist “Fall of Troy”.
Also in the works were more pre-production tweeks for “The Senate” (to be recorded during November and December).
This week we are working on final mixes for a televised roast, cooking the veteran Seahawk quarterback Dave Krieg. This will hopefully be a FOX sports feature and is MC’ed by seattle comic Rod Long. The roast is a benifit for cancer victims and their families.
More mixing for the Denver based band “For A Few”.
Also the first day of pre-production begins with The Senate.
back to work……
Clickpop recording artist Scatterbox has left the studio. Three days of tracking and the record is almost done. Man, some bands just crank thru the tunes- These guys are really nice gents- Check their tunes out.
In a quick little nutshell here are the goings on at the tank.
- Remote recorded 18 live tracks for an up and coming DVD/CD for “The Senate” double disc set which includes a new studio album as well. The DVD will be mixed in 5.1 surround.
-Mixing away on The Revengers full length release due out sometime early next year.
- Wild Orchid Children have recorded song three, which is being shopped to some pretty cool indie and major labels- check this shittee out.
- Mastered Gift of Prophecy’s new release.
- Man Down Medic was in for some basic tracking for their soon to be released EP.
- Jeremy Park is in tracking an EP for The Torn ACL’s
- Still mixing Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground.
- Scatterbox (clickpoprecords.com) from Coeur d’ Alene is arriving soon to track a full length album.
Hello all, things have been kind of crazy here in Black Diamond, Here is a summary of what’s been going on.
• Finishing up mixing “Kay Kay and His Weathered Undergrounds” full length album.
• Co-producing, tracking , mixing, mastering an EP for a new Seattle band “Wild Orchid Children” (Kay Kay side project)
• Producing a few more tracks for “The Johnbenders”
• Mixing another song for “For a Few”
• Recording and mixing a music soundtrack for a full length Hollywood film (cannot say more)
• Mixing a hip hop record for Dustin Reican The Revengers (yep-I said hip hop)
And on top of all of this, still making time to be a loving father, a full time teacher and caring husband.
Needless to say, I’m swamped. However I am going to start finding more time to keep everyone in the loop.
Hope everything is going well elsewhere for everyone else as well.
Peace,
Tom
We are very proud to have wrapped up final mixes of our first 5.1 mix to come out of the tank for Cole’Lition for their upcoming demo dvd to be released and if all goes well they may even release it as a product for everyone to enjoy.
We’ll let you know when and if that happens so you can enjoy all 6 channels of audio goodness.