An hour in the studio will get you this!

I love the Trans Siberian Orchestra. Seen them in concert 3 times. Great show. Great music. But a little on the sedate side. Since the first time I saw them I've always wanted to do a metal Christmas album and here is a demo I whipped together tonight. Oh, and with the end of the world coming in just a few short days, I've named it accordingly!

The Process of Recording...

December 16, 2012

 Today was pretty productive. I was working on a track called "Throw the First Stone". John had sent some of the bass tracks for this song sometime last week and I had to place them into Cubase. The song is in drop C so it is pretty low and the low end frequencies on the guitar were occupying a lot of the same turf as the bass. The guitar tracks had to have some EQ applied to them to let the bass sit in the track better. You would think this would make the guitar sound thin but it really doesn't. 

Next was the synth parts. I had not laid down any of the synth tracks after the first chorus and needed to track the second verse, chorus and the section John calls the "dirge". I'm Using a great sounding VSTi called Voyager for the synth parts. I had to cut back the delay in the patch used as it was making the mid range sound like mud! BTW that's a techniqical term, ha!

Editing this thing is beyond me! But, I have been able to find great banks of sounds that others have created for it!

In the Beginning...

Ok. So this is the first post for the Christian progressive metal band known as Utopia's Corner. At this time we are a three piece with Chris Hill on drums, John Fraser on bass, and Bill Simpson on guitars and keyboards. Chris currently lives somewhere in North Dakota. John and Bill live on Camano Island in the state of Washington. 

We are in the process of recording an EP that will be released sometime in 2013. For now here is a pic from July 2012 when we were all together.

We'll get some sound snippets up soon.

Thanks

Photo by Jennifer Fraser