END of STUDIO DIARY; on my part.

OK. Basically, I've left the country now. And it was me writing these accounts and since I'm not there I can only give you 'the bread' i.e. what is happening. I cannot give you 'the butter' i.e. the funny little quotes that make this worth reading (if at all). HOWEVER the butter may be found on TWITTER. Visit it and follow us. We can be found as 'SSPband'. Also the Twitter is on the side of the blog (to your right) so yeah!

Before I left we had the site out and the new promo. Since then it has been back to mixing. Mainly on Denis' part. I think he prefers doing it alone at times? Theo and Mario are working jobs but whenever they have the time they go by to work with Denis. Me? Well I can't do much, but I've taken it upon myself these next 2 months to network and whore ourselves as much as possible. Basically get contacts for when the album is done! Not what you know; who you know.

We will be together around december again for a couple shows hopefully :D

I reckon you should se some new material in a month or so. But don't bet your life on it. The procedure needs care and time. The blog will be update every so often, every couple weeks? to give you the lowdown on what is happening!

Take care and thanks for following all summer!
Michael xx

Studio Diary: Tuesday, 15th September; WWW.SCARLETSNOWPRELUDE.COM

SCARLETSNOWPRELUDE DVD Sneak Preview 2

Our DVD promo and our website were released two days ago, involving myself and denis staying up till 5 in the morning. After fixing everything we lost and making the DVD better we then transfered the files another (shittier) pc since denis' did not render. This took forever and involved Nazi Zombies and bakery trips, but we were adamant on finishing it that night; 'we don't fuck around'.

The next day I spent all morning polishing the site, and was left with only the backgrounds to do. Mario then came over in the afternoon with his girlfriend and we worked on fixing it up. We succeeded and then I spent the next couple hours polishing once more. The guys had gone to the pub and I finalized the site before heading there. We sat and drank to our hearts content when it started to pour down with rain. We all decided to go swimming!! at midnight!! I was soaked and freezing but the sea was warm. I got home and then found out I was meant to be taking Denis home and had left him.

With site and video a gogo we launched it the next day, whoring the shit out of it. Response and feedback was GREAT! With even more inspiration now we are set on completeing the tracks! We will put 3 songs up for free download along with another 3 gap songs (acoustic versions). The other 6 songs and 6 gap songs will not be released until we get some sort of backing to release an album.

That night we went out to celebrate with a drink and then continued onto limassol roundabout to practice gap songs amidst the natural reverb of the underground walkways! Fuelled by Red Bull we ended up leaving at 4 in the morning!

VISIT: www.scarletsnowprelude.com

Studio Diary: 1st - 11th September; Daysss

This past week has been pretty hectic. It seems the seeds we once planted have now grown tall into ripe fruit bearing trees. The seeds being our efforts and the tree being the result. Ripe fruit; good results.

1st - 11th: PROMO
We took a break from mixing and have spent the last week working on the next DVD promo. It should've been out 2 - 3 days ago but it seems fate has another plan for us. After near completing the promo, the file crashed, and we were unable to open it up! Why didn't we back it up I hear you say?? Well I think we did (or didn't), we always back everything up (god forbid we should lose the tracks) but it seems we had no options; Adobe Premiere rearing its head back and letting out a blood curdling laugh. These past two days then have involved Denis reinstalling EVERYTHING (well not everything) and beginning again. How annoying. Well hopefully we will be finished with the damned thing tonight! And you will all be able to see the work we put in through a really cool montage, layered with our music! The likes of which will leave you gasping for more.

MIXING
The mixing of vocals is still an on-going process, but I think we are passing the halfway mark. We have been playing with different plug-ins to make them sound 'sweeter than your mum's sweet-pie' according to Denis. On observing Denis' handy work at one point I asked him what will that do, pointing at a button/plug-in/knob, to which he replied: 'this Michael, will sound like if you picked up a kitten, held it to your mouth and sang through it'. And he was right. I also learnt about double knobs. This week involved many illustrious quotes and humurous moments. One of which being when I thought Van Burren was called Van Helden for some reason, and kept calling him by that until I was corrected (and laughed at). One of our songs we established can only be described as 'Van Burren walking around in India with sunglasses on'; next music video I think? Also, the week revealed Theo reaching completely new levels of. And lastly wonderous tales about sharting (a word introduced to us by Mario) and I leave the rest to your imagination.

WEBSITE
The website is coming along just dandy. We have bought a domain and a host! So hopefully that will be up tonight along with the promo. Both are coming out together, and we are sorry for the delay. If not tonight, you can bet your sweet ass it'll be tomorrow.

Afterwards, we will get straight back to the music, so we can a couple tracks out there for you. For the time being we hope you enjoy the promo and hopefully the tracks on it will give you an idea of how the process is going/sounding.

xxx