Have my hands full with rehearsals and gigs – we’ve got some kind of a residentship with a local venue, which is an Irish Pub. The only problem for me is that it’s located on the other end of the city from our appartment, heh. On the other hand, walking just under 3 miles one way then back again can’t hurt, and the weight I carry isn’t that large.

Other than that I’m finishing yet another library – for FM synths this time, and trying to do some extreme metal thing, evoking 1990s feel. For that I rely heavily on Korg M1 (even though in its VST form). A lot of the metal and gothic bands from those days apparently used its sounds religiously: Paradise Lost, Sanguis et Cinis, Diary of Dreams, many others. Some M1 timbres that don’t feel like anything natural on their own, really do the job in the mix.

The problem for me is with the guitars. I’m a $*itty guitar player, and will probably have to hire someone capable of doing guitar solos and more technical riffage.

Ah, and I don’t have a real bass guitar now (it stays with my daughter back in Russia), so have to emulate it with keys. Guitar drive/distortion/fuzz effects are software either (but not the guitar itself). Hopefully it doesn’t make the whole thing ‘fake’.