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In April I had Superfri in to record a one-day preproduction demo. They were a lot of fun to record, and I think things turned out pretty decent for the time we spent. I still need to go through their demo and point out some suggestions for where they can improve when they to their final recording. Anyway, it was the first project I did with my new mixer, which I'll post a review of shortly.

This past Saturday I also had Chris from Much The Same in to do some quick overdubs for their record. We did some gang vocals and I also generated an effect for a part that Chris wanted. For the gangs we had Eric, Chris, Gordon from Q-101 and A Revolution Is Here, Jeff and me. It was definitely a quick session, but I think the results are pretty good. I sent the tracks to Cameron on Monday night, so we'll see if they actually make it on to the record!

Chris pointed out that I'm doing an awful lot on their record... I took the live photographs that they're going to put in the liner notes, I sang backups with Jared on a couple of songs, I did gang vocals both in California and then again here, I engineered the session here and I also did a guitar solo in one of their songs. I only really asked to get to go out and help with backup vocals, since I wanted to see them work with Cameron. Everything else pretty much fell into my lap, either they asked me to do something or I offered to as a spur of the moment thing. It actually feels pretty good that they wanted my help with all that stuff too -- I mean I don't consider myself a pro really so it's cool that they (I hope) feel that everything's up to par.

Hm... other Punch It news.. Still working on a Counterpunch demo. That's kind of on the back burner for now since our first CD isn't even out yet... But it's nice to work on new stuff when I have a chance.

Technical To-Do:
• Calibrate both dbx 160xs' so that 0db is actually 0db. I hate meters that lie. To do this I'll need to hook up an analog output on the 3200 to a patch point. To do THAT I'll need to build another few TRS cables. bleh.
• Build more mic cables.