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VENT EIGHT: POINT OF ACCESS
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This album's premise was trying to make more flowing, radio friendly type songs. The huge difference between this album and previous albums is the massive presence of live guitar and a hint of vocals.  The guitar is a squire strat -- pretty shitty guitar.  It was recorded into Adobe Audition, rather than Sound Forge.  The input is now a USB device by M-Audio called JamLab.  I was introduced to a program called GuitarRig2 by none other than Native Instruments.  I might as well own stock in them based on how much software I've bought from them. 

I didn't use as many VSTi Plugins on this as I did on The Death of it All.  I did however invest a lot of time in collecting both free sounds and picking up all the refills I could get my hands on for Reason 3.0.  Reason 3.0 and Guitar Rig were a massive part in this album.  Some sound shaping in Adobe Audition from samples incoming. 

The small amount of vocals were recorded through a total shit microphone.  I have been introduced to a microphone which is superb and will be purchased for vocals to be used on the next album.  But, shit for this one unfortunately.  And as long as I'm on the topic of Vocals, I actually got my wires crossed on the last track.  I was working two ideas at once and what happened was two sets of lyrics that made no sense together.  If you, reading this, already heard it and came up with a theory on what the song was about, I'm glad.  Otherwise, it was fucking two things accidentally put together.  I actually said fuck it and kind of found it entertaining for a while.  But I kind of wish I would have redone it.  It was a last minute change.