Leviathan came over late yesterday night, and as such I couldn’t mix the guitars in the track using my trustworthy Fostex monitors, so I had to revert to the menial method of the 5 headphones. I’ve got 5 sets of headphones laying around, from a borrowed set of Sennheiser monitor headphones, to some studio ones, to some cheapy-cheapy Sony ones or my plug-type cell-phone ones. Each one with a very distinct response range and different sound, but I’m happy that the track sounds good in all of them. I might have erred a bit on the bass side, but since we do have some more time to produce another mix, I’ll give the track a few careful listens on my Reference Audio System™ and then on the Fostex monitors and act accordingly.

I had to remix the sound effects track as with the guitars in quite a few of the effects were no longer audible. Some of them still aren’t, but there’s still time to make some final adjustments.  On the other hand, I’ve been contemplating of releasing a special edition of the effects soundtrack which will be 5.1 encoded for those who have such systems =P We’ll see how it goes after Assembly.

So all in all.. we’re pretty much ready. Everyone’s fast asleep (or just waking up), Navis just got out the door to make his way to Finland and I’m deep into hypertension and can’t let myself get some z’s.

Oh.. and Leviathan.. you wanted a sick solo?.. Here.. have a sick solo =P

Meanwhile over at Navis’ Blog Stella (Navis’ 3 year old daughter) is throwing spoilers about the demo. She reveals (and tricks Navis also into revealing) that the demo will contain fish (no surprise for an ASD demo =), running people, a labyrinth, a turtle and a.. mermaid.. (!?)..

/me holds breath…

Oh.. and traditionally I created the icon for the demo.. which in this case too gives a hint of something found in the demo itself. No big surprise here… most ASD demos have a fish or two in it =)

Tomorrow I’ll head over Leviathan’s place and help him record the guitars. Time is running out… but I can’t wait…

Oh.. and the music. I spent most of the day yesterday laying out the sound effect track. Lots of effects, lots of syncing and even more coke cans (empty ones.. used as sound effects actually…). What’s going to be different this time around, is that the sound effect track will be a separate entity and not mixed into the music mp3. As such, you will be able to just listen to the music in the final package or have the full blown experience of the demo with the sfx.

Still tweaking minor things and adding details as more ideas spring into mind, while waiting for Leviathan to solidify the guitar parts today, record them tomorrow and mix them together on Wednesday. Boy I can’t wait.. this piece is turning out to be really swell..

Oh and did I just give out that there will be guitars in this one? =P… (and a mind blowing piano solo too!)

This one begun as a generic dance project, which shifted into trance, then into vocal trance and finally ended up being something between oldschool 90′s and Eurodance. Nevertheless, much thanks to Valerie Blonde for singing this in such a short notice.

This was made for the same titled demo by ASD.
Lyrics:

I feel,
a minute of confusion
I fear,
the venom of seclusion in my mind

I seal,
a fate no less than perfect
I steal,
the life that someone left in my back yard

Hear the call
Break the wall
Run for it or take the fall

Standing tall
Make the call
Not afraid to lose it all

Always slow
Taste the flow
Never been before so low

But here I lay
Roles I play
Much to everyone’s dismay

No more rings
Binding strings
I want the wind under my wings

Once the demo is out, I’m going to upload the music here. But until then… =)

Let’s kick some butt mate.. =)

A woman has a close male friend.
This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much.
She sees him strictly as a friend.
This always starts out with, you’re a great guy, but I don’t like you in that way.
This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a job interview and the company saying, You have a great resume, you have all the qualifications we are looking for, but we’re not going to hire you.
We will, however, use your resume as the basis for comparison for all other applicants.
But, we’re going to hire somebody who is far less qualified and is probably an alcoholic.
And if he doesn’t work out, we’ll hire somebody else, but still not you.
In fact, we will never hire you.
But we will call you from time to time to complain about the person that we hired.

Rings a bell, anyone?

…and if you don’t get it (assuming of course that you know how to play Magic) guess what’s gonna happen at the end of your turn… =P

There is en errata entry in Oracle about this one: You can include more than 4 instances of Molotov Cocktail in your deck. Athinaiki Zythopoiia would be sooo so happy…