Hello fans, Just a quick post to say that we have finished tracking and editing the bass guitar for the new album. I will soon be busy with the performance and tracking of my lead guitar parts… we are moving along and things are sounding pretty darn fine !!!

Rob

Greetings Kurodust fans !!!

Just a quick update regarding the progress of the new album. All the recordings for the rhythm guitar have been completed and we have now moved onto the bass. Trev has been jammin’ away for us over the last few weekends and having a good time in the studio. After some initial tweaking we settled on a nice bass tone with lots of attack and a solid feeling of body to help it sit in well with my guitar crunch. At this stage we aim to have all the bass tracking completed across the next few weeks. Once I have finished editing the takes we’ll be moving onto my lead and ‘misc’ guitar recordings.

Cheers, Rob

Hello all, firstly apologies for the lack of posting on the site of late. The band has been busy making arrangements for the final production of our long awaited new album. We recently completed a ‘test production’ of the our magnum opus to be, hehe, and after a month or so of reviewing and refinements we are now deep in production of the true article.

A couple of weeks ago we finished some needed modifications to the drum tracks and I myself are now in the depths of tracking all the rhythm guitar recordings. In order to get the most solid tone possible I made some final tweaks to my homemade guitar rig, now pulling even more cut and chunk out of the chords I was then ready to begin the recordings. This is a lengthy process involving multiple changes of strings, blistered fingers and very hot hard drives.. but well worth it in the end.

After about a year and a half in the process it’s good to finally see the album truly coming to form. Once the rhythm guitar recordings are completed I will be putting on my producer hat spending some weeks tracking Trev and Ben for their best bass and vocal performances. So hold on tight everyone, the road winds on ahead for now… sometime in the next few months we expect to be approaching completion.

For now though lets check out some photos of my new rig modifications specifically for this production. My homemade guitar isolation box took 2 months to build, looks ugly and weighs in excess of 55kg but can reduce loud guitars to a whisper in a quiet room and provides more tone and cut with more attenuation and less ‘boxiness’ than it’s comercial equivalents. This enables me to record at anytime without disturbing others and works as an intergral component of the guitar tone on this album.

Cheers, Rob.

Partly assembled rig with homemade cheap pillow soundroom absorber walls

My homemade isobox, designed for maximum tone I used a 32mm thick tasmanian oak baffle

At least 40dB of attenuation, who would have thought !!!

Hello all, I’d like to tell you a bit about the reworking of our Initialise album which I was working on recently. The band is now in the later stages of the writing process for our new album. Being over three years since the release of Initialise we thought it would be fitting to bring the production quality as close as possible to our current standards. Unfortunately we had a bigger job on our hands when I realised that the master tracks were missing completely… Fortunately though and due to the way I mixed the original it proved possible to disassemble most of the songs components from the original completed stereo mix.

With the work spanning about a month in total the tracks were separated, bass and guitar retracked and the whole lot was remixed and remastered to give birth to ReInitialise. I’m quite happy with the result and after aiming for a 50% increase in quality.. I think we met our target.

Here are some pics from the job…. Crank it up!!!

As promised, some new(ish) content! Initialise has been remastered and partially re-recorded to become ReInitialise, in an attempt to bring it up to the higher standard of production we try to reach these days. You can take a listen to the tracks by clicking here or on the album cover to the right!

Rob will do a post later on explaining the process he went through, but needless to say it was quite an achievement seeing as the original separately recorded tracks were missing and all he had to work with were those from the CD released in 2005. This is also the first recording of Rob’s new rig, which will be used on the upcoming album.

Also…

Kurodust recently did a brief photo shoot for the album cover, and we put up some of the more interesting and humorous shots on our Facebook page. Take a look!

Kurodust is still here. We’re working hard and new content will be coming soon. As you can see I have made a few changes to the website to make it look a bit cleaner and easier to read, nothing major.

The new album is in the polishing stages, but still has months of work before we can release it. There will be new content forthcoming, however, and hopefully we can get our songs out there over the next few months and get some anticipation going for the upcoming album.

So, click our social networking links (over there ==>), tell your family about Kurodust, tell your friends, hell, tell your enemies and make them into friends. The sign on the door says ‘Ready To Rock’.

The band is on an unscheduled month long break at the moment, to all our displeasure; these things happen I suppose. We have ideas building for the final two tracks though, and we’re starting to talk about how we’re going to plan out the recording so things haven’t come to a complete standstill.

Jay, Trevor and I went to see Korn on Friday night, and I think it was probably their best performance yet (Jay and I have seen them 4 times now, Trevor twice). They played a good variety of old and new stuff, and rocked it all hard. Surprisingly the gig didn’t sell very well and the crowds were sparse right up until Korn started (which was good for us because we got a good spot on the barrier), but once they started playing more fans came out of the woodwork and they ended up playing for a great crowd.

So, two more weeks before our next rehearsal, I’m going to try to make the most of them and get some writing done so we can get straight back into it on May 3rd. I’ve also been thinking about album artwork and redesign for the site, we may have to look for an artist to collaborate with as none of us have the necessary skills for what we’re thinking of. (So if anybody reading has good drawing/painting skills and wouldn’t mind doing some work for us, let us know)

Yes, well, hello viewers of whom frequent the site of the almighty Kurodust. As the work progresses around the 10th track mark of our writing phase I sense some true excitement building in our sessions now. Aside from the musical developments I am as always developing things on the engineering end, putting thought into the recording process for this album and also just as importantly my guitar gear. I’m keeping it all hush at this stage, but i’m in the process of developing some new configurations with my guitar hardware to pullout more tone and chunk.

I’m excited !!!

There’s a party tonight!

It’s been a few weeks since the last post, but apart from the week most of the band went to see Ozzy, we’ve been working hard. We’re well on our way to completing the tenth track out of our twelve planned, and it’s turning out to be a catchy little party song (which is what we set out to do, so I’m pretty happy)

There’s not much else to report, when we finish the tracks we’ll be ready to start refining and culling down to our planned 8-10 for the final tracklisting, and then we’ll get down to recording. It’s all taking a long time but we hope the final product will be worth it.

After what seems an eternity, we had our first practise session since the Iron Maiden gig, and it went really well. The practise session has been moved back to Saturday Arvo, 3pm - 7pm. Being that we no longer had the lunch break in the middle of our session, we were a lot more productive. We decided to scrap what we did on the new song last time and just jam out some riffs that we would record and then revisit later in the afternoon when we had some lyrics worked out. What we came up with blew my mind as it felt powerful, yet also cool and mellow. The chorus is pretty full on and the verses are sort of laid back, with some awesome drum beats accentuating every little thing Rob and I did. The vocal melody isn’t following along with the music as much as what we usually do and it really fills out the whole track. By the end of the day we had recorded a very rough cut of the intro, the first verse and chorus. So it seems as though we might finish the song in two sessions once again.

Last, but not least, I would like to wish Ben a very happy birthday for last week.

May the force be with you… always

Trev