This song was written as a capstone for an upcoming recording project. The theme is that, despite the general discord of life one must find the common element (in this case, a relationship) that brings peace. This is a static-pass, rough mix of the song, to serve as the sonic pallete from which I am developing the rest of the music.

This was written to encapsulate the feelings of moving to a new area and looking to find security there. The backround in the opening is the sounds of my fishtank and clocks in my apartment, to give a sense of serenity and mechanism. This was produced in a small bedroom with very limited equipment and no pitch-correction or profesional plugins, so concidering the limitations I am probably most pleased with the outcome of this song, which I hope you enjoy.

This is perhaps the most aggressive of the songs I have recorded, and it was originally to be acoustic-folk, but while playing with electric guitar tones I got to messing around with a lead part, and it fit this song best, so that should explain the sudden genre-change. This is also probably the most raw recording, as it is also a static-pass, but it has a wider variety of production styles. I promise, I only use aggressive screamed-vocals when specifically asked (in this case, I was)!

Symphony was recorded late in my time at Full Sail, in my college apartment with an extremely limited setup (I didn't even have a microphone stand, i set a borrowed drum mic on a bookcase shelf and stood in front of it for the vocals). The introduction audio was from a group business presentation, the rest was all recorded into a laptop on my bed and mixed on headphones.

Before I recorded Holding Me, I was an absolute recording purist - I refused to use too many plugins and was offended at the idea of using vocal pitch correction or synths instead of guitar amps and live drums. After I was dared by a friend to "just try using the software for once" I decided to go all out, with over-the-top pitch correction, fake drums and guiar amps, and a heavy use of synthesis (the only real instruments used in this song were one electric guitar, direct in, and vocals). Unfortunately, I had so much fun with the production of this song that, while I would prefer to use real equipment, I almost always end up using digital modeling guitar processing and sampled drums whenever I record.