Cubase 5 and More Delays

I have been extremely busy of late and unfortunately very little of my time has been in the studio. With the small amount of time I have spent in the studio, I have been getting used to some of the new features in Cubase 5 which arrived a few weeks ago after many delays. Overall I am very impressed with it and hopefully things should work a lot smoother now between the two studios.

I have also written a couple of new songs for the album whilst at the same time discarding a couple of others. Sometimes a song can sound good at first but eventually it doesn't have that lasting quality. To me this is important, and if I am not enjoying the song anymore then I can't imagine anyone else enjoying it. That said, Mick Jagger never liked Satisfaction when they first recorded it and look what happened. However in the end decisions need to be made and you just hope that they are the right ones.

Unfortunately all of this also means that finishing the album will be delayed a little. Primary recording is nearly complete and we have been working on rough mixes as we go, including entirely re-recording the longest and most complex song on the album (about 10mins long), which should help speed up the final mixing stages, at least I hope so. So at this stage We are looking towards a release date around Feb - March 2010 but this could change.

Of course there is a silver lining to all of these delays. That is: Considering this is the first album to be written, recorded, produced, mixed and engineered etc. in our own studios hopefully we will have ironed out all the bugs and pitfalls so that the next album can be produced with a process like a well oiled machine.

I will try to provide some more updates soon.

Keep on Rocking!