are you feeling "strong like ox!" yet klotz? do you have pro tools sessions of those demos you sent me?

boring.

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klotz is bitch

Hey Guys !!!

I am sorry I disspaeared for a couple weeks. I had surgery on may 8th and am recovering. I need a little more time to recouperate. I still feel like crap. I will get caught up on all of the recent entries and respond. I got an idea for a new song last week called " The Madagascar sailed across the ocean." Sorry no animal theme but I can try to work it in.

Micah

Reverb

I'm on a reverb kick right now. Listening to a lot of different records and realizing what an important role reverb plays in setting the mood of an album. I just wanted to think about what sort of sound we are looking for when we record Micah's guitar and vocals. I'm using a lot of digital reverb with a slow decay and also early reflections these days for my guitar, I think it fits the sound we are going for more than traditional tank/amp reverb. Any thoughts Nate or Micah?

I'm drinking please ignore typos/

damn it where are you micah? Watch the Rainer Maria video belo0w and get the last album they did you will like it.

Rainer Maria - Live

a zoo themed ep is the best idea we've had so far.

so i need some klotz love if we're going to get the ball rolling on this stuff. i'm gonna be busy until mid-june trying to find a new place to live and moving my shit. me and brittany are splitsville so life will be hectic for the next few weeks. after that though i'm ready to record some stuff. are you out there micah?

Klotz Tracks

I love it. Especially the outro on The Lion. I also like the second track Wolves as much or more then the first. Nate, give that track another listen, I think this is one of those less is more type of songs. I think the slower tempo could still be really driving with a good rhythm behind it and I love the lyrics and the main guitar riff. Micah, any chance you were listening to TwoThirtyEight when you wrote "the wolves?" It really reminds me of some of their slower songs on "you should be living now". That's a good thing, they are one of my favorite bands. I can tell you have been practicing a lot the guitar sounds great on both songs. I got used to the typical Micah guitar drone, this is really much better. Also sounds half decent as far as the tone, how did you record it, what guitar/amp were you playing? Are both the vocals on the outro of the first track you? What do you guys think about using the outro as an intro to "the Lions" and then again as an outro but extended for about four times the length of the original recording.

Also could Nate write a song about Monkeys or Elephants so we could have a zoo themed EP? :)

Archiving Files

Thanks Nate, you're a star. Next time you can archive the files together for one upload. That saves you even more time. You can download Winrar here. http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm

I'll listen now and leave some feedback tonight.

and here's the second tune...

http://rapidshare.com/files/112868429/klotz_2.wav.html

RAPIDSHARE

i uploaded the first song, jesse. here it is:

http://rapidshare.com/files/112866552/klotz_1.wav.html

just for fun

hey jesse. i promise i will post soon. at the moment i don't have any more than like 2 minutes which i realize i am even wasting that by typing this message. but hopefully later tonight or tomorrow i can figure out how to post klotz's stuff on there for you.

Upload Please!!!

Micah didn't mail me anything. I think he loves you more.
upload at rapidshare, post the link. It's an easy, fast and painless process I promise.
www.rapidshare.com

hurry hurry!

i got your scratch tracks today, micah. did you hear them yet, jesse? anyway, i really liked the first song a lot. especially the 1st verse, the chorus, and the cool outro thing. i don't know how much i like all the religious references in the second chorus, but that's just me being nit-picky and bitchy. i think we could really make that outro thing start out soft and build to a kick ass height. maybe we should dedicated our efforts right now to recording this new song and paper thin. any thoughts?

oh and matt's input would be more than welcome although it would just be a cruel tease since i see no way of getting him out here for a recording unless he has more money and free time than i'm aware of. i miss matt.

getting micah's scratch tracks will certainly help move things forward, but i'm not sure if that means we can go straight ahead with the drum and bass tracking. that depends on a few things:

micah...do you have session files for the scratch tracks you recorded? would it be a pro tools session? was it even recorded to a click?

the answers to these questions really determines if we could just use what micah sends me for the drummer to play to or if we need him to do a legit gtr track with me here in chicago. i'm assuming the gtr part will be more difficult than something i could even pretend to attempt myself (even if it's just a scratch). we'll see.