Repitition Number Nine

Brief News: Melissa Kienow came and recorded a vocal track on to a song that is a collaboration with another person. I do not know the musician's name. All went well. It was a quick task that was very much a learning experience for both of us. I tested out the 3 to 1 Ratio technique with this project, and it went well. We used a SM58 as a close mic and a Large Diaphragm Condenser as a distant mic. It captured her voice well and there was enough room in the recording to give it life. No frequency cancellation to speak of. Frequency cancellation has been an issue in The Kat Cellar at times. Much more to learn, but much has been improved. Also... Today, A Month Of Sundays started recording their full length album. Drum tracks were recorded along with a scratch guitar track. It was a good experience for all parties. In recording full lengths, there are many variables and issues that can arise, but today was mostly smooth sailing. The overhead technique used was the Dutch Broadcast style stereo method. This achieved a full sound and sounds very "real" when panned. There is still quite a bit to do on this recording, but the hardest part is over. More to come when necessary.

Eight Druids

General Update:

-A Month Of Sundays has released the demonstrative, seven song album entitled "Pain Don't Hurt." You can get a copy at a show, or get in contact with The Kat Cellar via email (katcellar@yahoo.com) for other options.

-Jeremyself has finished tracking for "Inordinate Affections", but encountered technical difficulties. More news on that when things get worked out.

-Leah Arnold has started the foundation work of the tracking process for her debut full-length album. Title and other information yet to be discussed. 

-Ronald Raygun will begin reuniting to perform music in private, and possibly in public as well, and therefor, working towards recording. They have not played together since August, so this will be a slow process. More to come.

Other Things:

In an effort to keep up with the modern times, Kat Cellar will be developing a "mail order" system. When i say "modern" i mean, "out of date." No, you will not be seeing the Capture the Plague full-length on the iTunes store. Nor will you find Ronald Raygun on myspace. But, when the time comes, you will be able to send $X to X address and recieve X album through the postal service. There's still a few fine details that have to be worked out between certain bands and people. The hope is to have the entire catalogue available. There are a few things that won't be available, mostly because they have been lost or the bands are untraceable. But, a vast majority will become available to your. Another hope is to have albums on CD and cassette tape as well, for those who don't have a cd player in their car, or have an appreciation for an over-saturated magnetic tape. 

Things To Be On the Look-Out For:

-Capture The Plague full length

-Capture The Plague performing at the "Rock the Block" in April.

-Advertisements.

-Mail Order Store

-A Month Of Sundays show in Groton (tentative) 

-Spring. When is it? Next month? sure.

that's all

-jeremy

7th st. Entry?

Update! This just in a week or so ago!

-A Month Of Sundays is two tracks from being done with the seven song "demo" entitled (possibly) "Pain Don't Hurt" . One guitar track and one vocal track. All in all, it sounds pretty alright. Album art is nearly finished. Just have a to clear a few things, and do liner notes and track listing.

-Jeremyself has in fact started recording his sixth full-length album, which will be named "Inordinate Affections". note: only three have been released. one has slipped into obscurity, and one was orphaned. Drum and bass tracks have been completed. Guitars will be tracked shortly. The hope and dream is for all the tracks to be done with week. Artwork began production today. Perhaps it will be the first album available through mail order as well as live performances. We shall see, dear readers.

-Leah Arnold is scheduled to begin recording her first full-length this weekend (2/23/08). We're going to teach her how to replace her guitar strings tomorrow. She's really talented, so don't let her inexperience with the details of maintaining her instrument fool you. She's really talented.

that is all from The Mystic Knights of The Kat Cellar.

over and out.

Six AM is on it's way.

Well, Altman "Hairsucker" Studeny (i hope i spelled that right) finished on Wednesday (2/6/08) after rescheduling due to illness described in a way that shocked and amazed me. Sadly, i do not feel like quoting it here. Anyways, he was pleased, which pleases us. A Month of Sundays is still scheduled for Sunday (2/10/08). There seems to still be some issues with communication, but all things work themselves out one way or another. Until then. Harumph.

thanks for reading.

-The Mystic Knights of The Kat Cellar.

The Fifth Element was a great movie

Greets.

A touch of news for you all. On Sunday (2/3/08) the one and only Hairsucker is going to be finishing up his tracks. How grand. It's been about a month or two since he started, so hopefully we really do finish tracking. The Capture the Plague full-length is going  along smoothly. After being featured in the newspaper, I took initiative to put up a couple new songs. wanna see? 

push this word.

The songs are "Echos" and "Truth."

In other news, Jeremyself thought heavily about starting on the new album last night at five thirty in the morning. He woke up too late and remembered that Hairsucker would be recording on Sunday. Dang. A Month of Sundays will be recording a demonstrative album next Sunday (2/10/08). Hopefully that will be only a two day process. We will see how that goes, won't we. Well, until next time, dear readers. Have a good day.

-floam

Number Four!

The Kat Cellar has offically passed into the second half of the first decade of the new millennium. That's right. The Kat Cellar has a myspace. Silly, i know. But sometimes you need a little more than a free website for people to know you exist. So here it is. 

Go ahead and add us if you want. We are shooting to update the music once a week. Hopefully our catalog is large enough to have two new songs every week. I think the plan is to only have two songs up at a time for now. Another thought was to have two different versions of one song. One mastered, one not. Just so people can hear what the actual difference is between the two. Just some thoughts. Go add us. (saying that made me feel a little ashamed.)

-Jeremy

Capture The Plague Birthday Card

Second Entry

January 19th will be the second birthday for Capture the Plague, who is (officially) the longest running Kat Cellar band. They will be celebrating by performing a show at the Yapa. Eightish. Free. 

Yes. The new album is still in the works, but the last vocal track will be done this week, we hope. After that, there will be a bit of mixing to do, but not much. Then it will be sent off (not really) for mastering. Peter Burckhard will be performing the mastering task. 

-Peter Burckhard has also been working on a praise and worship album. It will be close to completion before next weekend. Wow. A real deadline! Who would have thought that we would put ourselves in such a position.

-Altman Studeny has yet to finish the tracking process. But, the last time we talked with him, there was very little left to do. Very little. 

-Leah Arnold is still a high probability. At least we think so. We worked on a timeframe and it sounds like it will be in the month of January. This January. 

-A Month Of Sundays will be performing their first show on January 19th at the Yapatorium with Capture The Plague. Word has it that they want to record a demo shortly after. They have about seven songs, so it will be a long demo. Not one of those bullshit two song demos that have integrated their way. Demonstration.

-Jeremyself is the last in line for the winter months. There is talk of his next album being released under a different name other than "Jeremyself." No Decisions made yet. Perhaps it will be "The Artist Formerly Referred To As 'Who?'".

until next time.

p.s. watching twentyfour hour party people inspired me to write this. thanks tony wilson.