New Toy!

Your New Drummer

This was the sight that greeted me when I arrived at the studio at 9am yesterday morning. Drummer Tom from Your New Antique had got a lift down early, and was sleeping off the night before.

We tracked drums for 4 songs, stopping only for cups of tea, a sandwich run, and a brief emergency trip into sunny York to grab a replacement snare skin. The session gave me a chance to try out the Josephson C720 as a 'stereo' drum room mic, using the two cardioid capsules as left and right channels. It sounds pretty damn good actually - in fact I've yet to find an application where it hasn't shone.

The control room window could do with a good clean!

Sunny Days

It's sunny! But we still get wet on the way home! And there was a double rainbow landing in the field outside when Your New Antique left the studio tonight. Let's hope there's a crock of gold at the end of it all... as opposed to a crock of shit! No real danger of that - the tracks are sounding great so far.

What's going on?

It's been busy here!

Dead Rebellion have been recording a three track single, which is now complete and ready to go to pressing as soon as the artwork is ready. The tracks are "Forever Burn", "Falling Down" and "Rottweiler", along with a couple of bonus tracks.

The latest single from TWO is now available from iTunes. It's called 'Summer' and it's very pretty, so check it out.

Today we start production on the first studio album from Your New Antique, which should hit the streets & interweb sometime early in 2010. We'll be blogging this project as we go along, so stay tuned.

Also, we have some new toys in the studio, of which the star is a Josephson C720 microphone, one of only 20 made. The headbasket is designed to eliminate internal acoustic reflections, and the two transducers have separate outputs so you can pick the polar pattern & proximity effect after recording. The sound is simply stunning!

The Day The Music Dies...

7th of August, apparently!

Your New Antique on iTunes and youtube

The Your New Antique EP "Open Your Eyes" is now available from iTunes. And you can watch the video for Open Your Eyes on youtube....



Don't forget the album launch on Friday!

Your New Antique

Your New Antique have just finished recording their debut EP "Open Your Eyes" which will be released on the SOUP label shortly before Christmas.

The track list is: Open Your Eyes; Black Seas; Point of View; Safe and Sound

YNA hail from Huddersfield, and the artwork is based on images of the old Holiday Dyes and Chemicals plant that used to be a major emplyer in the town. The artwork was adapted from 'Core Activities', Bismarck Brown Series, by artist & print maker Julia Clegg.

www.printmakingonline.co.uk

The EP will be available next month on both iTunes, and from the XAUDIA web store.