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 !!!