Desert Bus for Hope Charity – Plus a Rock Cover

Alright so if you’ve never heard of the Desert Bus for Hope Charity here’s the run down. The comedy sketch group Loading Ready Run (http://www.loadingreadyrun.com) from Vancouver Island (Victoria) get together once a year to play the most boring game ever “Desert Bus” in order to raise money for Child’s Play. Child’s Play is a charity organization that brings toys and games into hospitals for … Continue reading Desert Bus for Hope Charity – Plus a Rock Cover

Mega Man 3 Stage Select Hard Rock Version

Back at it again. Yay for video game covers, haha. So if everything goes as planned, we’re gonna start doing this weekly. Basically we’re going to be taking songs from our childhood and recording hard rock versions of them with our own arrangements. Right now we’re mostly going to be focusing on video games and tv shows although we have plans to start doing other … Continue reading Mega Man 3 Stage Select Hard Rock Version

Mike Tyson’s Punch Out Hard Rock Style

While most people are out drinking and having fun on their weekends we’re busy being giant nerds and recording hard rock versions of random things from our childhood. We decided to dive in to the world of the Nintendo this weekend and recorded the Jogging theme from Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. It’s too bad we didn’t have a pink jumpsuit because we could have made … Continue reading Mike Tyson’s Punch Out Hard Rock Style

The End is Nigh! Plus Bass Tracking Video :)

Dear god, after months and months of being in the studio the finish line is finally approaching. We’ve loved every moment of being in the studio and it will just be amazing to be done this mammoth of a project (and we can’t wait to start playing live again!). So it’s been a while since I’ve updated any thing but let me tell you I … Continue reading The End is Nigh! Plus Bass Tracking Video 🙂

The Wall of Sound aka Guitar Tracking!

Here’s a video from the guitar tracking sessions at Beta Sound. Kevin Hoskin (Our Engineer) and Nathan Kidd from Long Way Down (Our Assistant Engineer) set up the mics and teched the amps for the recording sessions. We recorded the amps so loud that we blew up the Marshall Plexi. I’d say we used a lot of amps, but I think the video speaks for … Continue reading The Wall of Sound aka Guitar Tracking!

Drums for the New Album Sound Freaking Huge!

Last weekend we recorded all the drum tracks for the new album. Kevin (Our Engineer) and Bill George the drummer from Portal spent their Friday night at the studio teching, tuning, and seating the drums for the Saturday recording session. They set up so many microphones on the drums, I swear there was over 24 mics set up… and some weird mics I had never … Continue reading Drums for the New Album Sound Freaking Huge!

Studio Sessions – Pre Production

Here’s the second of many quick little videos that we’ll be making at the studio during pre production. The pictures in the video were takin while we were hammering out song arrangements and working out all the tempos for the new tracks. Being at the studio is addictive and every thing is going really really well. I can’t wait til we start tracking drums sometime in the … Continue reading Studio Sessions – Pre Production

Studio Sessions – Moving Day

We are officially moved into Kevin and Bills studio inside Beta Sound! Since moving in we have already done intense amounts of pre production and our tunes are sounding incredible. We’ve been filming a lot of the process and I’ll be posting some videos of the Studio Sessions for the duration of our time at the studio. Starting with this one: Expect more to come! … Continue reading Studio Sessions – Moving Day