STUDIO BLOG: Day 9

Well here we are=) Today was the last day in the studio. We started out the day with some starbucks then re-recorded some guitar parts for our last song. Once that was finished we did vocals. Today went by pretty fast. The whole lats two weeks has gone by fast. Its crazy how tight we've become with Ben and Nick and how comfortable we are in the studio now. If I could I would honestly stay for another week to record more songs. I have such a huge passion for recording and taking a song and polishing it to make it album worthy. Im really gonna miss the studio and the guys and all the new friends we made. Ive learned a lot while ive been out here. I've learned more about what it is to live out Gods love and to follow Him in this adventure He's brought us on. This has been a huge step for us as a band and I wanna thank you for reading this blog. I hope its kind of given you an insight to what it takes to make a record. Our fans are everything to us and even though music is our passion its our fans that really keep that going. A band is nothing without its fans. Now im sure you are wondering when you'll be able to hear these songs. I am gonna be honest and tell you I have no idea. The purpose of the production deal that we signed with Skies Fall was to record 2 songs to shop out to record labels. The studio decided to make it a 5 song ep which made us pretty happy. SO with that being said the next step is get this ep into the hands of A&R reps. As to when youll hear it, I hope it will be sooner then later!! Ive never believed in our music as much as I believe in this ep. Its fresh its new and its grown up. We have a lot of work to do though as a band. The next couple months are going to be interesting and if you can I ask that you keep us in your prayers. We are gonna need Gods direction above all else in the near future. So thank you all so much again for your support and love. You all mean so much to us.
God Bless,
-Ronnie

STUDIO BLOG: Day 8

Wow its already thursday. Its hard to believe that tomorrow is our last day here=( Im gonna miss this. I've gotten sad every time we have to stop recording. I love it so much. Today was a good day. We recorded the vocals for Whisper. This song pushes me vocally. We decided on singing the first half of the verses an octave higher then what we wrote them...not only that but I had to sing them softly. For anyone who doesnt know anything about singing...its hard to sing high notes in your range softly without  going into falsetto voice. So im going to be working a lot on my vocal range and capabilities when I get home! Im excited though! This song sounds sick. We did a few different takes of me screaming/growling/sounding more hardcore then I actually am =P Its quick but youll hear it. After that we worked on re-writting some parts of a song that the studio likes a lot but we as a band dont that much haha. While kris was recording harmonies for Whisper I went outside with an acoustic guitar and my macbook to write. We scratched some stuff and changed the chorus a good bit. We pretty much re-wrote the song 3 or 4 times. Its hard to scrap whole sections of lyrics and guitar riffs and re-write them completely. I found that kicking around a soccer ball around helps me write haha. We finally got something that the studio AND kris and I really liked. So thats the last song we have to do and then saturday kris and I are flying back to PA. Pretty stoked to put the finishing touches on everything tomorrow. Enjoy the pics!

Adding in some last minute string parts

oh yah =P

STUDIO BLOG: Day 7

Day 7!! I cant believe its already wednesday! It feels like this has gone by so fast but at the same time it feels like its been forever!! Today we worked on probably my favorite song on this record. We spent a fair amount of the day tracking guitars. We altered some parts and added some parts. For lunch Ben grilled up some Brots (i think thats how you spell that lol). I've never eaten those before so that was kind of yummy...until ben told me what brots were made out of O_O. Then we moved on to vocals and that actually went by pretty fast. Kris sings a lot of great harmonies on this song. We didnt get to many pictures today because we streamed most of the afternoon on ustream. That was pretty fun! Ive never actually been on ustream so we might have to do that again sometime=) We finished the vocals and tomorrow we'll be doing vocals on Whisper. Ill be sure to get some more pics!