I put Consternation up. It was actually the first track I wrote/recorded for the project.

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I like it, what did you use to record it?

Thanks! I used a Presonus Firepod for the interface and Cubase for the recording software. For electronic shit I used FL Studio, Reason, DKFH, and some homemade instruments (like my Heaven Evacuation Alarm System). My computer is a shitty old Dell that I didn't even upgrade to 2 GB Ram and 2.6 GHz (which should be the bare minimum) until the later stages of mastering. The mics I used were Shure SM-58 + SM-57 and Rode NT5s. The 57 and NT5 combination for guitar work as a really great pair. My guitar rig is a Mesa Dual Rec head with a Marshal 60's lead cab and a Line 6 Verbzilla pedal (the best fucking reverb EVER) and the guitars used were Jackson SMSLG soloist and a Telecaster. The bass/rig I borrowed from a friend and was some kind of musicman that was ran through the head and straight into the Firepod (can't remember the head's manufactuer).

I'm not kidding about using such a crippled Dell. Some of the songs would take 5ish minutes to load and I even had to 'warm up' some of the songs which basically consisted of letting the song play through a few times so that I could actually hear the tracks. If I didn't, the tracks would have horrible lagging, popping, and other weird stuff.

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"Consternation" is track 3 right? If so it reminds me a lot of recent Capricorns, which is a good thing.

I thought any vocals whatsoever in Synergist would have sounded weird!

Chris: Have you heard any of the second half of the record? I'm thinking of "Glowing" in particular.

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Yarp, track 3. I haven't heard much of Capricorns, I'll check them out.

I agree for the most part, but sometimes I feel "Alongside the Farce" is begging for vocals. Oh well, bit too late now! Shit, I was still in high school when we wrote that song!

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I've been listening to the material on your MySpace page for the past couple of days, and think it's fucking great, all the more for the fact that it's a one-man project.

HIF is the one I've been listening to most often, can't get enough of that shit, son! The vocals are superb, especially during the verses (?). I quite like the line "scalpel down, blood up, let it drain to a cup...".

Do you have any live video/audio?