Bit Decay - Mantis

Mantis Update and Pictures

nospam@example.com (Thomas Pfau) — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:31:18 -0500

I haven't entered any updates here on the Mantis recordings but we've been busy. We've been meeting almost every Sunday for the last four months or so with some breaks over the holidays. We spent quite a bit of time trying to get some decent drums sounds and finally settled on triggering the drumset while miking the cymbals. We also added a couple of ambient mikes which pick up the cymbals nicely. We have one song just about done except for a couple of leads and the vocals.

I recently saw a Kodak digital camera at a decent price and we recently got good news on our taxes (we don't owe nearly as much as I expected) so I bought it. I brought it along the yesterday's session and took a bunch of pictures. Click on the pictures for larger versions.

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nospam@example.com (Thomas Pfau) — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:55:00 -0500

When I was in high school, I was in a band. I played bass guitar.

Fast forward 25 years...

Kevin, the lead guitarist, decides he wants to get us all back together again and put together a CD. Rather than pay other people to rent studio time which could get very expensive, he decided to build a studio in his house. A few weeks ago, we started doing some recording.

He really did a good job on the studio. It's double-wall construction so you can hardly hear anything outside. He bought a lot of good microphones and a Roland VS2480CD workstation.

We've been getting together on Sunday afternoons to do a few hours worth of work. We started learning to use the workstation while practicing Dean's new song. Dean plays rhythm guitar and drums.

I'll post updates to our progress in future entries here.