A little abou this new album "Tipping Point"
Posted January 31, 2007
So you've probably heard we are all about analogue and tape.... ok. Well, lets take a step further off the beaten path, we did not pitch correct, autotune, beat correct, sample, or use a computer in ANY WAY AT ALL, during this album. Laptops were banned from the control room just in case binary might slip from their keyboards in a vain attempt to promulgate their syndicate. We recorded using all vintage basses, guitars, amps, and machinery. All pre-1969 stuff, with the exception of this one Phil Lesh designed bass that was a full double octave neck, a real monster from the 70s. I used it on only one tune (I'll withhold that info for now). We recorded in a two story all wooden dome that had a ring of mics up in the roof top so we got natural reverb, no effects, real deal. We even mixed on tape, something that engineers haven't done since there primary education. But, let's take one step further into the raspberry bushes, we then cut the final directly from tape which hasn't been done in 25 years! We had to cajole and bug Howie Weinberg for nearly a week to get him to do it, but he did. Btw Howie mastered Nirvana's seminal "Nevermind" and almost all the records of note in the past 25 years.
Myspace lets us show you a mp3 of the songs. Mp3's suck, literally, they are a vaccuum of sound, a digital wasteland of noise in comparison to the actual sound of our songs. We nearly didn't post them since it was a desecration of sorts to put something so tenderly analogued and taped and preserved every step of the way, only to be thrust into the cold depths of the digital era without a blanket or a hankie, but we did because we wanted you to at least hear the stuff. So, if you are the audiophile that you led me to believe you were.... check it out in the real deal format just click on the banner at the top of the page to buy it OR see us live OR listen to your friend from the local dive bar's copy, but don't steal, in some countries they take hands for that sort of chicanery. Think about it.... then eat chocalate moose.
-matt bass
