Control Room Makeover
After waiting for months, the new producer racks finally arrived, and I spent a grueling 35 hours rewiring all of the outboard gear. They're beautiful, low profile birch, and they really open up the control room. The room feels twice as big now that the 6 foot machine racks are gone. Along with the new clouds, diffusers, wedges, gobos and bass traps, the control room is sonically tuned and dialed in. New custom Mogami snakes are also being built, and Tim Hochstedler of Synapse Systems will soon rewire everything clean and tight. Brad Brooks just finished a five day recording trip from San Francisco along with Todd Roper and Paul Hoaglin. We also finished the first album for Keep Your Fork, There's Pie, and you can hear Paris, TX. Paper Brain just finished several tunes for its second record, and here is Up and Down [mp3]. Pockeknife also finished an EP, and you can check out Cotton Candy [mp3]. And here is a new one by The Red Octopuses called Save Yourself [mp3]. Yellow Bells, another tune by The Red Octopuses, is featured as the program music for Nike's "Help for Haiti" campaign, and you can peek at that here.