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Hi! I'm back after a good sized absence. It's been a whirlwind of finalizing recording stuff, getting on an airplane, coming home to hugs and friend's i've missed very much, saying goodbye to a producer who changed our band for the better, and meetings with labels and industry people that could impact our future. It's a blessing to follow through in a real chase of a dream. I often find myself feeling surreal and wondering if this life is truly happening. I have for a long time been a believer in the power of dreams and how God uses them in our daily lives to bring about personal and dramatic change. I believe that poets and painters and songwriters and dancers are given this abstract gift and a unique voice or talent to express God's love in their respective mediums. I don't normally write in here about such topics, but I decided that if you can't write about real and relevant topics to your life, then the blog would be a disservice to its readers (even if it ends up only being me trying to document my own thought process). I'm constantly impressed by the new ways that music manages to sneak into my existance through old songs and new ones. I found myself fascinated int he past few days by several seemingly unorthodox rock bands. Mew, the receiving end of sirens, the dear hunter, mineral, codeseven and a few others have really been making me feel again (as far as rock music is concerned).

Mixing. Days 3 and 4.

Yep, it got real busy again. Our new stuff is seriously so exciting. I can't wait to share it with all of you. Lot's of mixing and hard work. I feel like i've reached a point where I can't explain it any more and you just have to hear it. I'm hoping that point comes sooner rather than later. I miss California. I hear there are some crazy brush fires there right now. Pray for the families who have lost or will lose their homes in this tragedy.

Mixing. Day 2.

We are in the studio where they mixed Scarface. Today we are mixing another (song title with-held to add to the suspense). This is what we are mixing on:

The songs are sounding so amazing. Every little piece of every song has new life breathed into it. Things ranging from guitar parts to backing vocals to electronics to guitar parts to drums all have new exciting changes that add up to make the songs an entirely new sound. Can't wait to share them with your ears...

Mixing. Day 1.

So we have finished the majority of tracking (only small parts on two songs left) and we have entered an amazing studio. It's the studio where they mixed Scarface, Top Gun, and Footloose. Paramore and Anberlin (two favorites in the BTP camp) were in here last week for various projects. It's pretty rad to be in a place surrounded by such great history. We hung out with the studio owner for a little bit. He is really cool guy named Aton who is really personable. He was telling us about a lot of big bands who came through here at one point or another. There are some rad rooms here that we discover when we get A.d.d. and wander the halls. There is a sweet upstairs lounge. Oh yeah, and we are mixing on an SSL (one of the top mixing boards in the industry). So yeah, we're stoked.

The Artful Dodging of a Programmers Duties.

Today we focused on finishing up a few guitar parts and doing a lot of programming. Programming (the way I define it) is anything that isnt vocals, guitars, bass, drums, or other acoustic instruments that are physically played. It's mostly electronic noises and sampled sounds to enhance the feel of a song. In our case, we go as far as relying on programming for certain parts to give us a more diverse sound. As a band, we want to use anything and everything within our grasp to create songs that make you really feel when you listen to them or sing along. It's our sincere hope that our music blesses you (the listener/friend) in one way or another.

We also ate turkey sandwiches.

James Paul Wisner is an awesome producer.

The End.

Yesterday and Today.

Yesterday was extremely productive for us as a band. We managed to finish the final guitar, programming, and keyboard tracks on 3 of the 6 tracks we are doing during these sessions. We have 3 more that we are hoping to finish today. It's very exciting to hear our hard work come together. I can't wait to come home and share it with as many of you as i can. Back to tracking...

Even more guitars and programming.

We have been busy over here in Florida recording. I wish I could describe everything going on over here in this blog in more detail but it changes by the minute. I can safely say that we have made huge changes to pretty much every song and that we have never been prouder of our work as a band. Every member has stepped up their game in writing performing and now it's just a matter of time before we get to share it with you. We are going to begin mixing in about 4 days and it's such a good feeling to see our hard work turn into some amazing songs.