ITF

Over the past 7 months I have been recording and mixing the ITF E.P. It has taken quite a while I will be the first to admit. But when one begins a new project for the first time you don’t take into consideration all the things that go wrong. Even the smallest thing that is overlooked can come back and bite you in the ass when you least expect it. Smallest thing being the singular variety. We have had a non-stop roller-coaster of disappointment over the last few months to put it truthfully.

Between having tracks recorded and then not having the hardware to facilitate for all the tracks, finding a solution just to be confronted with bad intonation on all fronts, and then losing all the plugins that I had been taking for granted. It seemed that as soon as we got any momentum going we were pushed back further than where we had presently clung to. It was hard to keep focused on the end goal when it was so far away and a lot of the time I had lost my way.

But through it all we have managed to keep it together somehow. And now presently it’s very close and I feel very confident that it’s done to a professional standard. I just have a feeling.

It is at this point that I acknowledge the awesome power and versatility of waves plugins. For without these i would have been totally lost. The plugins themselves only come in a bundle are there are many types of bundles stretching from affordable to some day in the not too distant future. They are immediate and responsive and in host processing terms; there is little or no delay between tracks that I may have a high plugin count on. They have helped me shape our sound and given lots of ideas to work with when it comes to producing an overall quality sound. I have learned a huge amount in the last few months that i can’t say i would have otherwise. And knowing what I know now could have saved me a lot of time in the larger scheme of things.

On point of the CD I can say that the end of May will be a safe estimation of the E.P. launch, unless, there is a major zombie outbreak and we have to assemble the squad inc. Ross ‘the zombie genocider’ Costigan, Ken ‘the Katana’ McGuire, and Boo ‘the headshot everytime’ Keogh. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to this.

 

I shall keep ye posted.