Pro Tools, Bane, S I U Y D and Music

I have been with the band a lot over the past few months, it's different to how it used to be.

Nowadays we spend more time messing around with pro tools than we do actually playing as a band. Which I guess is a good thing, and a bad thing (delete as appropriate).

The sheer amount of music we have been creating is becoming quite silly, we already have an album, ready to be mastered and released, and we've written, and demoed, another one.

Now I'm no amazing producer/engineer, but I like to think I'm getting pretty good at this whole pro tools lark. No wonder so many bands can make awesome sounding demos before they even touch a proper studio. They've preproduced it in their homes/basements/sheds, or in our case, an attic/cottage. It's fairly simple to get hold of a few decent plugins, and be able to make yourselves sound fairly decent. (Having decent hardware helps too, we don't have any decent hardware, but we make what we have, work).

Of course, with writing, comes smoking bane. I have always been "under the influence" with previous bands during the writing process, I guess it opens me up to different ideas.

S. I. U. Y. D

Or..

Shove It Up Your Dick

Seems to be my favourite saying of all time nowadays. Me, Seal and Madgie are constantly saying it, referencing it, facebooking it, and now, even blogging it. Get on the bandwagon. Make it a sensation.

Well, this has been my first blog. Hope you enjoyed reading it.

Stay tuned for more.

Captain and Commander, Le Bonj