...Very nice....are you the Owner of that studio?
Thanks, yes this is my little home studio I have been putting together piece by piece, it's come a long way from the little setup I had in the late 90's, I had a Fostex DMT-8, a Digitech RP-10 and a Yamaha PSR-80 keyboard, along with my original NJ series Warlock (#1) and a cheap bass, I recorded a couple of really awesome tapes and would give copies of them away, it was a good time.
I have a much better income now and I don't drink, smoke or do drugs anymore so I am a lot more focused, the only problem now is even though I continuously buy new toys for my studio, I barely have time to play around in it due to working so much.
In case you haven't read in other posts, I work at the Humvee plant, and with the current situation in the world, the demand for Humvee's is very high which means many hours at work and the word is that next year we are to expect even more hours, so even though it's nice to have money to spend, sometimes I debate in my mind if it's worth it to not have a life other than working all the time, oh well, I guess it comes down to how you manage your free time.
The rack gear sitting behind the Warlock sits just to the left of the desk in the studio picture, everytime I add a new piece of gear, some part of my recordings improve, I just hooked up with a Helicon Voiceprism off ebay, I can't wait to play around with that thing when it arrives.
I only wish I had more time to write and record, I just released a CD October 29th that took me 6 months to write and record 8 songs, (by "released" I mean I finished it up and gave it to my friends and family who I thought would like it) the title is "Where's the head?" and it is my first attempt at a concept album. It's about a serial killer who has a fetish for taking the heads of his victims home and keeping them in his fridge until he decides to get them out and use them for a little personal pleasure, then when the heads start to get too funky, he throws them into the ocean and sets out to find some new ones, he eventually gets paranoid and kills himself, it's a nice little tale for the whole family to enjoy.
It turned out okay, I'm not a perfectionist so there are a lot of rough edges, everyone seems to enjoy it and hasn't been too critical, I have begun work on my next CD and have one song complete, I'm going for a little darker and gloomier sound this time, WTH kinda experimented with several different styles of metal and even sounds that were very un-metal, but the overall flow was excellent, on the next project I plan to make a more professional sounding recording and pay more attention to fixing little mistakes that I let go on "Where's the head?".
I thought about sending WTH out to some record companies just to see if I could get any reactions, but most of what I read in The songwriters market guide talks about bands, I am through with bands, it would be cool if someone thought my stuff was interesting enough to distribute, but I am no longer interested in playing in bands, I just want to create and record music on my own terms, but I am sure I am one of a million who do the same.
I listen to a lot of music and I'm confident that my stuff is worthy of a following just as much so as some of the crap I've seen make the big time over the years, just wish I had more time to put into it.
Still no linked images allowed around here Paz! Naughty...
by Anti-Societys Snake » Tue Sep 20, 2005 5:08 pm 
